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Sheng Jiang

Fall Flycatcher Frustrations

A tale of two flycatchers

It began when I took a simple photo:

Picture of a Yellow-Bellied Flycatcher perched on a branch in undergrowth.

Well - it was more a series of ~500 photos. But either way - it was my first time getting such a close look at a flycatcher. I knew that empids (short for Empidonax, the genus these species fall under) were a tricky subject, but getting an accurate ID and having it approved turned out to be a bit harder than I had expected.

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