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Least Flycatcher
Empidonax minimus
Audubon Illustration
John James Audubon, Birds of America (1827-1838). Public domain.
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About the Least Flycatcher
The least flycatcher (Empidonax minimus) (also called chebec, or chebecker, after the sound it makes) is a small insect-eating bird. It is the smallest Empidonax flycatcher in eastern North America.
Source: Wikipedia
Classification
- Scientific name
- Empidonax minimus
- Family
- Tyrant Flycatchers
- Order
- Passeriformes
Similar species
Other members of the tyrant flycatchers family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.
- Acadian Flycatcher Empidonax virescens
- Alder Flycatcher Empidonax alnorum
- Ash-throated Flycatcher Myiarchus cinerascens
- Belted Flycatcher Xenotriccus callizonus
- Black Phoebe Sayornis nigricans
- Boat-billed Flycatcher Megarynchus pitangua
- Bright-rumped Attila Attila spadiceus
- Brown-crested Flycatcher Myiarchus tyrannulus
- Buff-breasted Flycatcher Empidonax fulvifrons
- Caribbean Elaenia Elaenia martinica
- Cassin's Kingbird Tyrannus vociferans
- Cattle Tyrant Machetornis rixosa
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