Pacific-slope Flycatchers are slightly smaller than other species. LEAST FLYCATCHER habitat: Willows, alders, brushy swamps, swales. They are essentially identical in looks, but their voices are different. Species Empidonax flaviventris yellow-bellied flycatcher Empidonax flaviventris: information (1) Empidonax flaviventris: pictures (2) Empidonax flaviventris: sounds (1) Species Empidonax hammondii Hammond's flycatcher In summer, the Pacific-slope Flycatcher inhabits deciduous or mixed woodlands, hawking for insects from a hidden perch. It is the smallest Empidonax flycatcher in eastern North America . Songs and Calls A wheezy fitz-bew or pit-speer. In plumage, the Pacific-slope flycatcher is virtually identical to the Cordilleran flycatcher, and differs only subtly from most Empidonax flycatchers in North America, but its breeding habitat and call are different. Call kep or pit. The Cordilleran flycatcher (Empidonax occidentalis) is a small insect-eating bird.It is a small Empidonax flycatcher, with typical length ranging from 13 to 17 cm. Empidonax traillii . Breeding in North America: e, c, w; can be seen in 21 countries. flycatchers, calls can be the best way to distinguish this bird. The willow flycatcher (Empidonax traillii) is a small insect-eating, neotropical migrant bird of the tyrant flycatcher family. Willow Flycatcher. Pacific-slope Flycatcher Calls Very similiar in appearance to other Empidonax spp. Empidonax flycatchers are best identified by voice. Description. . Its call can vary slightly by different regions and the bird itself. Adults have olive-gray upperparts, darker on the wings and tail, with yellowish underparts; they have a conspicuous teardrop-shaped white eye ring, white wing bars, a small bill and a short tail. (See Willow Flycatcher.) The genus name Empidonax is from Ancient Greek empis, "gnat", and anax, "master".The specific alnorum is Latin and means "of the alders". In plumage, the Pacific-slope Flycatcher is virtually identical to the Cordilleran Flycatcher, and differs only subtly from most Empidonax flycatchers in North America, but its breeding habitat and call are different. Coloring is brown-olive, with a dark breastband and paler belly and throat. Safely separated only by voice. Least Flycatcher records in April. Until the 1970s, this bird and the Alder Flycatcher masqueraded as just one species under the name "Traill's Flycatcher." Willow Flycatcher (Empidonax traillii) bird calls and sounds on dibird.com. There are four subspecies of the willow flycatcher currently recognized, all of which breed in North America (including three subspecies that breed in California). Lowther (1999; BNA 446), in treating the vocalizations of Alder Flycatcher, digresses to note that the whit call of Willow Flycatcher "is similar to calls of several other Empidonax flycatchers" [Least, Dusky, Gray, or Buff-breasted], a fact that is repeated by numerous others who deal with empid calls. The song of Pine Flycatcher is also distinctive. The alder flycatcher (Empidonax alnorum) is a small insect-eating bird of the tyrant flycatcher family. This map was made on April 10th, the orange markers indicate records in the current year (i.e. They have a … voice: Song an accented fee-BE-o or rrec-BE-o. Breeding habitat is also a helpful clue. Though it is less likely to be heard in the US, it wouldn’t be entirely out of the question to have an overshooting bird set up territory somewhere like the Huachucas or Chiricahuas – a pair of Tufted Flycatchers nesting in Ramsey Canyon shows how the crazy isn’t entirely impossible! 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