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    Olive-sided flycatcher, perhaps?

    Primary projection = the extent to which the tips of the primaries project beyond the line of the secondaries on the closed wing. It directly measures wing "pointedness" and also tends to correlate with wing length. It's important in the ID of a number of groups of birds, e. g., flycatchers and...
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    Olive-sided flycatcher, perhaps?

    Alright, you've got me outgunned on bill color in general. In my experience, however, Western Wood Pewees always have some yellow at the base of the lower mandible (as per Pyle's "primarily").
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    Olive-sided flycatcher, perhaps?

    Don't think so; in my experience the under mandible's always pale and is invariably so depicted in field guides. That's why I used the word "apparently" in my previous post, to indicate that the bill wasn't necessarily really all-dark but that that's how it appeared in the photo.
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    Olive-sided flycatcher, perhaps?

    Pewee was my first thought also. What led me phoebe-ward was the darkish head and the (apparently) all-black bill.
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    Olive-sided flycatcher, perhaps?

    Eastern Phoebe
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