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Fading fitzbew: in the Southwest, the embattled Willow Flycatcher faces an uphill struggle for survival.

Birder's World

| December 01, 1997 | Friederici, Peter | COPYRIGHT 1997 Kalmbach Publishing Company. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The shrubby willows grow thick along the Little Colorado River in the White Mountains of eastern Arizona, in a valley surrounded by slopes covered with tall ponderosa pines and Douglas-firs. Early on a June morning the air is cool and pleasant. My boots grow soggy from the wet meadow grasses as I walk from one clump of willows to another, stopping at each thicket to listen.

I hear the melodies of Song Sparrows, high twitterings from Violet-green and Barn Swallows, and the insistent calls of Common Yellow-throats. In the distance, a nondescript gray flycatcher alights on a dead willow branch. I strain to hear. "Whit, whit," the bird calls. I slide in the mud at ...

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