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Photo by Fernando Cerra
South Padre Island, Texas, May 2004

Empidonax flaviventris

[edit] Identification

5 1/2" (14 cm). A very small flycatcher, olive-green above, yellowish below, including throat, with 2 white wing bars and yellowish eye ring. Other flycatchers of genus Empidonax (Acadian, Alder, Willow, and Least) have more whitish throats, underparts, and eye rings.

[edit] Distribution

Breeds from central Canada and Newfoundland south to Great Lakes region, northern New York, northern New England, and Maritime Provinces. Winters from Mexico to Panama.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.

[edit] Habitat

Bogs and moist thickets in northern coniferous forests; on migration, in second-growth woodlands and dense thickets.

[edit] Behaviour

Nesting: 3 or 4 whitish eggs, with brown spots, in a nest of moss and rootlets on the ground. Voice: On breeding grounds, a flat chilk or killic; also a rising 2-note whistle, per-wee?

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