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Willow Flycatcher

Empidonax traillii ORDER: PASSERIFORMES FAMILY: TYRANNIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

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.

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."

Search the Macaulay Library online archive for more sounds and videos

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