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Tyrant flycatcher calls
SongLark teaches 8 tyrant flycatchers, from Birds of California, Birds of the Pacific Northwest and Birds of Eastern North America. Tyrant flycatchers can sound alike, so play each recording below, read what to listen for, and follow a bird to its own page to learn more.
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Birds of California
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Black Phoebe Sayornis nigricans
A sharp tsip call and a thin two-part pi-tsee, pi-tsew song near water.
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Western Kingbird Tyrannus verticalis
Sharp kip notes that build into squeaky, bickering chatter from roadside wires.
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Say's Phoebe Sayornis saya
A plaintive, down-slurred pee-ur whistle from a fence, barn or rock.
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Cassin's Kingbird Tyrannus vociferans
A loud, burry chi-bew or ka-beer from treetops and wires.
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Ash-throated Flycatcher Myiarchus cinerascens
A rolling ka-brick and a soft, burry prrt from oak and scrub.
Birds of the Pacific Northwest
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Western Flycatcher Empidonax difficilis
A sharp, rising, two-part tsee-WEET call, like a question, from shady forest in summer.
Birds of Eastern North America
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Eastern Wood-Pewee Contopus virens
A slow, plaintive, whistled pee-a-wee, then a falling pee-yer.
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Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe
A raspy, emphatic fee-bee, fee-b-be; wags its tail on a low perch.
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