Flycatcher, Ontario (1 Viewer)

[mordovarot]

Hi,

Is it real to ID this fellow?

Thanks

 

[Motmot]

Great Crested Flycatcher

 

[mordovarot]

Thank you. It is definitely by the shape and everything else but it's tail has no orange colour, that's why I turned back.

 

[Microtus]

Why isn't it an Empidonax?

 

[Motmot]

Hi,

Is it real to ID this fellow?

Thanks

Do you have any other pics of it? It looks a Great Crested to my eyes but, flycatchers on this kind of pics (no offence intended) can be very tricky and it's always better to check any other images available.

 

[birdmeister]

I took a good long look at this after Motmot's suggestion of GC Flycatcher.

I think I'm seeing an Empidonax, but it does seem to have an awfully large head. I do think that the strong wing bars and suggestion of eye-ring point to an Empid. If so, I'd say Willow/Alder.

 

[mordovarot]

Thank you!

 

[mordovarot]

Not sure, but I think that's the guy. Willow?

 

[David Roche]

Alder/Willow Flycatcher. Not sure if its possible to be any more specific

 

[Motmot]

Yes, these images show a Willow/Alder. Next time try to post them together

 

[mordovarot]

Thanks. That's the bird from the same tree from the next day

 

[bronze sunbird]

Empids are a nightmare. There is no practical way to separate Willow from Alder unless you hear then call. In the old days they were just lumped together as Traill's Flycatcher.

 

[rkj]

I am confused. Are the second and third pictures the same bird as the first?

 

[mordovarot]

I am confused. Are the second and third pictures the same bird as the first?

Not necessarily, as I wrote before, just the same spot, a small tree in a meadow. And I heard songs of both of them around there. Anyway, thats ok. Another example of how confusing could by pictures of birds