Listening to a Continent Sing

the companion website to the book by Donald Kroodsma

OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER MT-348

Big Hole National Battlefield, Wisdom, Montana

June 6, 10:40 a.m.

Sunrise at 5:45 a.m.

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An olive-sided flycatcher, quick, THREE BEERS!, nine times in a little less than a minute. He's somewhat distant, overlooking the battlefield from the north with the marsh down below.

Background

Ruby-crowned kinglet, song sparrow, northern waterthrush, yellow warbler, warbling vireo.