Bird Identifier

Bird Encyclopedia

Search and identify 1,000+ birds — with size, habitat, diet, voice, behavior, and the field marks that tell them apart.

Acadian Flycatcher

Acadian Flycatcher

A greenish, large-billed Empidonax flycatcher of shaded eastern forest ravines, identified by its explosive 'peet-sah' song.

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Least Flycatcher

Least Flycatcher

The smallest and most vocal of the eastern Empidonax flycatchers, easily located by its emphatic, repetitive 'che-BEK' call.

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Pacific-slope Flycatcher

Pacific-slope Flycatcher

A yellowish-toned Empidonax flycatcher of shady Pacific coastal forests, nearly identical to the Cordilleran Flycatcher and best told apart by range and call.

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Willow Flycatcher

Willow Flycatcher

A plain, greenish-brown Empidonax flycatcher best identified by its sneezy 'fitz-bew' song, breeding in dense willow thickets across North America.

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Alder Flycatcher

Alder Flycatcher

A plain, olive-brown Empidonax flycatcher of northern alder swamps and wet shrublands, virtually identical to the Willow Flycatcher except by voice.

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Dusky Flycatcher

Dusky Flycatcher

A gray-olive Empidonax flycatcher of open western mountain shrublands and forest edges, closely resembling several relatives and best told apart by voice.

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Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

The brightest and most yellow of the eastern Empidonax flycatchers, breeding in boggy boreal forest and giving a soft, plaintive whistled call.

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Gray Flycatcher

Gray Flycatcher

A pale, long-tailed Empidonax flycatcher of sagebrush and pinyon-juniper country, distinguished by its habit of slowly dipping its tail downward.

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Hammond's Flycatcher

Hammond's Flycatcher

A small, grayish Empidonax flycatcher of mature western conifer forests, often foraging high in the canopy and best identified by voice.

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Cordilleran Flycatcher

Cordilleran Flycatcher

A yellowish interior-mountain flycatcher virtually identical to the Pacific-slope Flycatcher, found in shaded coniferous canyons of the Rockies and Great Basin.

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Mexican Jay

Mexican Jay

A plain blue-and-gray jay of southwestern mountain oak woodlands that lives in cooperative family flocks year-round.

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Harris's Hawk

Harris's Hawk

A dark chocolate-brown desert hawk famous for hunting cooperatively in family groups, unlike almost any other raptor.

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Olive Warbler

Olive Warbler

A pine-forest specialist with a tawny-orange head and black mask, now classified in its own unique family separate from true warblers.

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