• Skip to Content
  • Skip to Main Navigation
  • Skip to Local Navigation
  • Skip to Search
  • Skip to Sitemap
  • Skip to Footer
Help develop a Bird ID tool!

Willow Flycatcher

Empidonax traillii ORDER: PASSERIFORMES FAMILY: TYRANNIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

  • Similar Species
  • Related Species
  • Go to:
Willow Flycatcher Photo

© Michael J. Hopiak/CLO

A small drab flycatcher of wet, brushy areas, the Willow Flycatcher is best identified by its voice. Nearly identical to the Alder Flycatcher; the two species were considered the same until the 1970s.

Come Join NestWatch

Calls

  • Song, call
    Recorded by Geoffrey A. Keller, Robert C. Stein
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Song a harsh "fitz-bew" or "rrritz-bew," accented on the first syllable. Call note a mellow "whit."

Read Cornell Lab of Ornithology's blog, Round Robin
Search the Macaulay Library online archive for more sounds and videos