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Photo by The Falcon
Photo taken: New York, USA

Empidonax minimus

[edit] Identification

Gray-olive upperparts, darker wings and tail, white underparts; bold white eye ring, white wing bars, a small bill and a short tail. Gray breast, yellow sides to the belly. The bill is dark above, with pinkish lower mandible; blackish legs.

[edit] Similar Species

It is similar in appearance to the larger Eastern Wood Pewee.

[edit] Distribution

Photo by Muskrat.
Photo taken: North-eastern Pennsylvania, USA

Canada and the northern United States.

Migrating to Mexico and Central America. Essentially the only wintering Empidonax in the Yucatán

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.

[edit] Habitat

Open deciduous or mixed woods.

[edit] Behaviour

They make a cup nest on a fork in a small tree.

Diet includes insects taken in flight or from foliage, also berries.

[edit] Voice

The song is a dry che-bec. The call is a sharp whit.

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