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Tyrant Flycatchers

52 Bird Species

Acadian Flycatcher

This species is heavy-billed and long-winged compared to most other Empidonax flycatchers. Upperparts are bright olive green. The dusky-green to blackish wings show two wing bars (whitish in spring, buffy in autumn) and very long primary projection. The complete eye ring is thin and yellowish. The th more...

Length: 15 cm Wingspan: 22 cm

Alder Flycatcher

This species is nearly identical to Willow Flycatcher. Alder and Willow Flycatchers were once considered the same species, Traill's Flycatcher. The two are best distinguished by voice. Upperparts are olive, with darker grayish tones on head. The blackish wings show two whitish wing bars and fairly lo more...

Length: 13 cm Wingspan: 20 cm

Ash-throated Flycatcher

This is the western counterpart of Great Crested Flycatcher; paler overall. Upperparts are brownish-gray. The wings are slightly darker, with whitish wing bars and whitish edges on the secondaries and tertials, and rufous edges on the primaries. The tail shows extensive rufous, especially on the unde more...

Length: 19 cm Wingspan: 30 cm

Black Phoebe

This phoebe is instantly recognized by its stark black and white pattern, peaked hind crown, and tail bobbing. The upperparts, head, breast, and sides are black. The belly and undertail coverts are white. Wing feathers show indistinct pale edges. At close range, note the white outer web of the outerm more...

Length: 15 cm Wingspan: 27 cm

Brown-crested Flycatcher

Like other flycatchers in the genus Myiarchus, this species has a long tail and a large head with a short bushy crest. Two subspecies occur in North America. The western subspecies is noticeably larger with a larger bill. The eastern subspecies is smaller and nearly identical to Great Crested Flycatc more...

Length: 18 cm Wingspan: 33 cm

Buff-breasted Flycatcher

This species is the smallest of the Empidonax flycatchers in North America, with distinctive plumage and very limited range. Upperparts are light brownish. The dusky wings show two whitish wing bars and long primary projection. The tail is short and notched, with obvious white outer edges. The eye ri more...

Length: 13 cm Wingspan: 19 cm

Caribbean Elaenia

Medium-small Central and South American flycatcher that is superficially similar to North American Empidonax genus. Adult: Olive-greenish above, including head, back, wings and tail. When crest is raised, it exposes this species' white crown patch. Unlike any Empidonax, this species shows an indistin more...

Length: 14 cm Wingspan: 20 cm

Cassin's Kingbird

This flycatcher resembles a darker version of Western Kingbird, lacks white on outer tail feathers. The head and breast are dark gray, with a black mask through the eye and a conspicuous white malar. (From a distance, it looks like the bird is carrying a cotton ball in its bill). The back is dark oli more...

Length: 21 cm Wingspan: 38 cm

Cordilleran Flycatcher

This species is virtually identical to Pacific-slope Flycatcher. Pacific-slope and Cordilleran Flycatchers were formerly considered a single species, Western Flycatcher, and their species status remains in question. The two can only be separated in the field by the male's call note, or by breeding ra more...

Length: 14 cm Wingspan: 20 cm

Couch's Kingbird

This Southern Texas specialty is very similar to Tropical Kingbird. The two are best distinguished by voice. The head is gray, with dark lores and ear coverts creating an indistinct dark mask, and a whitish throat. The olive-yellow breast transitions to a bright yellow belly and undertail coverts. Th more...

Length: 20 cm Wingspan: 38 cm

Crowned Slaty Flycatcher

A phoebe-sized flycatcher with long tail. Distinctive dark patch extending from lores to auriculars; dark cap and gray supercillium. Yellow patch on crown. Gray-brown upperparts and pale grayish underparts. Fairly small, dark bill. Juvenile has pale edging on wing feathers. more...

Length: 18 cm Wingspan: cm

Crowned Slaty Flycatcher

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Cuban Pewee

This small, olive-gray Caribbean flycatcher is large-headed, long-tailed, comparatively short-winged, and has a longer, proportionally thinner bill than other similar flycatchers. It is dark dusky olive-green above. Head is uniformly dark with an incomplete white eye ring that flares behind the eye. more...

Length: 15 cm Wingspan: cm

Dusky Flycatcher

This species appears rather drab compared to other Empidonax flycatchers. Upperparts are olive-gray, grayer on the head. The dusky wings show two dull whitish wing bars and short primary projection. The tail appears fairly long and squared or slightly notched at the end. The whitish eye ring is consp more...

Length: 13 cm Wingspan: 20 cm

Dusky-capped Flycatcher

This species is similar to Ash-throated Flycatcher, but is smaller, with a long thinner bill. The crown is gray-brown, darker than the olive-gray back. The wings show indistinct wing bars and rufous on the primaries. The tail has very little or no rufous. The throat and breast are light gray. The bel more...

Length: 16 cm Wingspan: 28 cm

Eastern Kingbird

This species is easily recognized by its black and white pattern and sputtering call. The upperparts are black, fading to dark gray on the back. Tertials and wing coverts have very narrow pale edges. The tail has an obvious white band at the tip. Underparts are white, with a pale gray band across the more...

Length: 19 cm Wingspan: 36 cm

Non-vegetated Areas

1 species

Say's Phoebe

Sayornis saya

Rimrocks and Mesas, Open Country and Grasslands, Deserts and Sagebrush Plains, Dry Western Woodlands