With its erect posture and stately manner, the Ash-throated flycatcher brings a touch of elegance to the oak and juniper woodlands of Oregon.

A medium-sized flycatcher, it has a puffy crest and generally pale coloration, sexes are similar. It has gray-brown upperparts and an ashy gray breast; the throat may appear whiter. Belly and undertail coverts are pale yellow. It has two whitish wing bars, and rufous-colored inner webs of the tail and primaries. Juveniles have more extensively reddish tails.

It is an uncommon to locally common summer resident in the Rogue and Applegate valleys and a rare vagrant in the Willamette Valley. Oregon habitat varies with geographic location, but almost always involves some slope.

Hear the song of the Ash-throated flycatcher

Photo by Charlotte Ganskopp