Traill's flycatcher explained

Traill's flycatcher was a supposed species of tyrant flycatcher in the genus Empidonax, called Empidonax traillii. It was named by John James Audubon after his good British friend Thomas Stewart Traill.[1]

It is now considered to be two distinct but closely related species, which are outwardly very similar but prefer differing habitats and replace each other geographically without significant hybridization:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: About Orkney - Thomas Stewart Traill . www.aboutorkney.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160912144910/http://www.aboutorkney.com/ttraill00.html . 2016-09-12.