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Willow Flycatcher

Empidonax traillii

Classification

Class
Aves

The willow flycatcher (Empidonax traillii) is a small insect-eating, migrant bird of the tyrant flycatcher family native to North America. Taxonomy The willow flycatcher was included by the Franco-American ornithologist John James Audubon in his book The Birds of America based on a specimen collected in the "woods along the prairie banks of the Arkansas River". The section of the book containing the willow flycatcher was published in 1828.

Distribution

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United States of America · 429,142Canada · 85,983Mexico · 2,077Netherlands · 8United Kingdom · 1