Family Tyrant Flycatchers
This spectacular wanderer from the tropics occurs virtually every year in North America. Although it is impossible to predict just where it will appear, the majority of records are along the Atlantic Coast, and there are more records in fall than in other seasons. Most Fork-tailed Flycatchers reaching our area probably come from southern South America: long-distance migrants that have made major errors in navigation.

Illustration © David Allen Sibley.
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Text © Kenn Kaufman, adapted from
Lives of North American Birds

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Songs and Calls

Buzzy chattering song; call note a sharp sick or plik.
Audio © Lang Elliott, Bob McGuire, Kevin Colver, Martyn Stewart and others.
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