Cordilleran Flycatcher 

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Empidonax Occidentalis 

Cordilleran Flycatcher

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.

BILL: broad with yellow-orange to pinkish lower mandible.

SIZE: measures about 5.5 - 6.7 inches in length, with a wingspan of 8.7 inches.

WEIGHT: weighs about 11 - 13 grams.

COLOR: olive-gray, yellow, white, and black.

Insects, spiders, berries and seeds.

Pine-oak or coniferous forest, usually near running water.

BREEDS: Western United States and Mexico.

WINTER: Mexico.

CALL: A sharp "seet!"

SONG: A high-pitched, squeaky, three-part "ps-SEET, ptsick, seet!"

NEST: Nest is cup-shaped, built on a fork in a tree, usually low in a horizontal branch.

EGGS:  2 - 5 eggs.

They wait on an open perch of a shrub or low branch of a tree and flies out to catch insects in flight (hawking), and also sometimes picks insects from foliage while hovering (gleaning).

Cordilleran Flycatcher Infographic





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