This is one of the harder IDs we’ve made, and I’m not 100% about it, but it fits most of what I can find to help identify it, and Merlin said there was one around right when we saw this bird.

Small bird with a grey back and head, white belly and throat, with two white wing bars, sitting on a thin bush branch.
Willow Flycatcher; Dixon Waterfowl Refuge; Putnam, IL; 15 June 2024

Back to best birds