Flycatcher, Yosemite, CA, May 2018 (1 Viewer)

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Jimmy I

Member

• Dec 15, 2018

• #1

Hi all,

Hoping you can help with this flycatcher from this spring?

Cheers

Jim

 

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KenM

Well-known member

• Dec 15, 2018

• #2

That looks like a Ruby-crowned Kinglet to me.

Cheers

 

Andrew Whitehouse

Professor of Listening

Supporter

• Dec 15, 2018

• #3

It's clearly a flycatcher. It looks like a Western-type to me - yellowish underparts, elongated rear edge to eye ring, shortish primary projection, longish bill. I think Yosemite is somewhere around the boundary between Pacific Slope and Cordilleran, so not sure what is most likely. Might need a more precise location.

 

KenM

Well-known member

• Dec 15, 2018

• #4

Yes, revisiting the image, the bill base is too deep for RCK, and pp (short) does point to one of the Western Empids. Wouldn’t like to commit to any of them at the moment....more images might help?

Cheers

 

Nutcracker

Stop Brexit!

• Dec 15, 2018

• #5

Andrew Whitehouse said:

I think Yosemite is somewhere around the boundary between Pacific Slope and Cordilleran, so not sure what is most likely.

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Yosemite is in Pacific Slope range; Cordilleran only east of the Sierra Nevada.

 

ovenbird43

Well-known member

• Dec 15, 2018

• #6

Agreed on Pacific-slope Flycatcher by range