Listen to the Olive-sided flycatcher
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About the Olive-sided flycatcher
The Olive-sided flycatcher is a bird in the family Tyrannidae (order Passeriformes). Its conservation status on the IUCN Red List is “least concern”.
What does the Olive-sided flycatcher sound like?
Most birds have two kinds of vocalisation: songs, which are learned or innate phrases delivered mainly in spring and summer, and calls – brief contact, alarm and begging notes heard all year round. Listening for both helps with identification.
The recordings here are labelled as song and call. Listen for differences in rhythm, pitch and repetition – the spectrum display makes it easy to see whether a sound is a pure whistle (a thin line), a harsh call (a broad band) or a trill (rapid repeated marks).
From Wikipedia
The olive-sided flycatcher (Contopus cooperi) is a small to medium sized passerine bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatcher family. It is a migratory species that travels from South America to North America to breed during the summer. It is an agile flyer and mainly consumes flying insects caught in flight. Since 2016, this species has been assessed as being near-threatened globally (IUCN) and threatened in Canada (SRA) due to its declining populations.
Related birds in the genus Contopus
More from the family Tyrannidae
Great kiskadee
Pitangus sulphuratus
Eastern kingbird
Tyrannus tyrannus
Eastern phoebe
Sayornis phoebe
Cliff flycatcher
Hirundinea ferruginea
Yellow-crowned tyrannulet
Tyrannulus elatus
Yellow tyrannulet
Capsiempis flaveola
Masked water tyrant
Fluvicola nengeta
Black phoebe
Sayornis nigricans
Acadian flycatcher
Empidonax virescens
Gray kingbird
Tyrannus dominicensis
Great crested flycatcher
Myiarchus crinitus
Frequently asked questions
What does an Olive-sided flycatcher sound like?
You can hear 2 recordings of the Olive-sided flycatcher on this page, including its song and call. Most birds have two kinds of vocalisation: songs, which are learned or innate phrases delivered mainly in spring and summer, and calls – brief contact, alarm and begging notes heard all year round.
Is the Olive-sided flycatcher endangered?
The IUCN Red List classifies the Olive-sided flycatcher as “least concern”.
What family does the Olive-sided flycatcher belong to?
The Olive-sided flycatcher (Contopus cooperi) belongs to the family Tyrannidae in the order Passeriformes.
Sources & credits
- Song · Napo: 3 km NW Guagua Sumaco, Ecuador by Niels Krabbe – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Call · Morona-Santiago: e-slope Cord. de Cutucú: Unnsuants, Ecuador by Niels Krabbe – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q580893 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Olive-sided flycatcher – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Becky Matsubara from El Sobrante, California – CC BY 2.0