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Field Guide for all the Birds of North America


Mexican Flycatchers

Flycatchers, Kiskadee, Pewees, Phoebes, Tyrannulet & Wood-Pewees

Moucherolles mexicains

Muscicapidae & Tyrannidae

Information, images and range maps on over 1,000 birds of North America, including sub-species, vagrants, introduced birds and possibilities

mexican flycatchers

There are at least 19 species of flycatchers or bird species that are related to the flycatcher family and have been recognized visitors or vagrants to North America. These visiting birds are generally seen during the spring and fall migration periods. Some are seen for just one day while others may be seen over a number of days, weeks or even months.

These visiting birds are all members of the flycatcher family, such as Becard, Elaenias, Kingbirds, Pewee and Tityra.

Click on the bird names listed below to see pictures of Flycatchers seen in Mexico, Caribbean Islands, South and Central America


References to Other Bird Sites:

Avibase - the world bird database This site provides the user with a complete list of bird species, broken down per country, or in the example of the US or Canada, per state and province. Here, bird species names are available in other languages, a great asset to be used as a translation of foreign bird names.

ABA - American Birding Association This site represents an organization that maintains official records of all birds species that have been proven to have been seen inside the perimeters of the North American Continent and the surrounding bodies of water. Regular revised versions are posted to keep the bird list current at all times. This is the list used by all serious birders over their lifetime. You may be aware of the movie called the "Big Year". It was with this list that all the competing birders used in an attempt to set a new record as to how many bird species that could be seen by an individual birder in one calendar year.

I hope you will take advantage of these suggested websites. I have used each of them, in one way or another, throughout the years in my quest to better identify and understand our fine feathered friends.


Classic Collection of North American Birds

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