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For the Love of Trogons

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And no playback is required, as it readily investigates my whistled version of its call: I whistle short, flat bursts while mouthing “tyoo, tyoo, tyoo, tyoo…” (About the question of calling in territorial birds, I know this is considered a very bad habit in heavily birded areas of North America.

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Field Guide to North American Flycatchers: Kingbirds and Myiarchus: A Field Guide Review

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Or a birder trying to figure out if a medium-sized Myiarchus in Arizona is a Nuttings’s, Ash-throated, or Dusky-capped Flycatcher. Lee and Birch strongly believe that even look-alike flycatcher species can be identified using a holistic approach.