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Why Are Flycatchers So Hard to Identify?

  a species is difficult to identify can be key to making an ID. No birds illustrate this better than tyrant flycatchers (family Tyrannidae), one of the world’s largest bird families, with well over 400 species. Some are distinctive, but most are fairly drab, and in

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