Dusky Flycatcher
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| Empidonax oberholseri Phillips, 1939 |
The Dusky Flycatcher, Empidonax oberholseri, is a small insect-eating bird of the tyrant flycatcher family.
Adults have olive-grey upperparts, darker on the wings and tail, with whitish underparts; they have a white eye ring, white wing bars and a medium length tail. The breast is washed with olive-grey. The bill is mainly dark. It is a bit smaller than the Gray Flycatcher and a bit larger than the Hammond's Flycatcher.
Their breeding habitat is mountain slopes and foothills with brush and scattered trees across western North America. They make a cup nest low in a vertical fork in a shrub.
These birds migrate to southern Arizona and Mexico.
They wait on an open perch and fly out to catch insects in flight, also sometimes picking insects from foliage while hovering.
The call is a sad dew-hic.
The scientific name commemorates the American ornithologist Harry Church Oberholser.
[edit] References
- BirdLife International (2004). Empidonax oberholseri. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 06 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
