Upper parts, crown dark olive-brown; sides olive brown, form a vest; throat,
mid-belly stripe white; bill thick; tail medium. Perches on highest twigs.
Crown, back gray; thin black line through eye; throat, chest pale gray; belly
yellow; tail black with white outer feathers; bill short. Exposed perches.
Olive brown above; white throat; dusky chest drab; yellowish wash on belly; eye
ring very thin; flicks tail up. Song sneeze-like.
The Southwest willow flycatcher [E. traillii extimus] is
a New Mexico endangered species.
As these flycatchers typically nest in groves of cottonwoods, willows and associated
stream and wetland trees, it is more likely that they will be seen near the Galisteo
River than in the Park.
LS reports:
- Silky-Flycatcher: four Phainopeplas, Phainopepla nitens,
recorded Sep - Oct 2002
IN OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS
Sighted at the Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve (a lush, well-watered
preserve 3 miles [4.8 kilometers] north of Cerro Bonanza, near La Ciénega.)
Western Wood-Pewee, Black Phebe, Say's Phoebe, Ash-throated Flycatcher, Cassin's
Kingbird, Western Kingbird - SUMMER
Eastern Phoebe - VAGRANT
Sighted at the Ortiz Mountains Educational Preserve (an isolated high
mountain group -- 7,000 to 9,000 feet [2,133.6 to 2,743.2 meters] elevation --
eight miles [12.9 kilometers] south of Cerrillos.)
Say's Phoebe, Flycatcher spp. - Apr '03
Western Wood Pewee, Gray, Cordilleran, Say's Phoebe, Ash-throated, Western
Kingbird - as of '04
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