Yellow-bellied flycatcher

Adults have brownish-olive upperparts, darker on the wings and tail, with yellowish underparts; they have a white eye ring, white wing bars, a small bill and a short tail. The upper part of the bill is dark; the lower part is orange-pink.

The Yellow-bellied flycatcher is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

Yellow-bellied FlycatcherEmpidonax flaviventris Order PASSERIFORMES – Family TYRANNIDAE Issue No. 566 Authors: Gross, Douglas A., and Peter E. Lowther * Articles * Multimedia * References Courtesy Preview This Introductory article that you are viewing is a courtesy preview of the full life history account of this species. The remaining articles (Distribution, Habitat, Behavior, etc. More

A photographic review of a Yellow-bellied Flycatchertext More

The Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (Empidonax flaviventris) is a small insect-eating bird of the tyrant flycatcher family. Adults have brownish-olive upperparts, darker on the wings and tail, with yellowish underparts; they have a white eye ring, white wing bars, a small bill and a short tail. The upper part of the bill is dark; the lower part is orange-pink. Their breeding habitat is wet northern woods, especially spruce bogs, across Canada and the northeastern United States. More

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - Empidonax flaviventris Global Rank: G5 State Rank: SNA Agency Status USFWS: none USFS: none BLM: none FWP Conservation Tier: 4 PIF: none General DescriptionWe do not yet have descriptive information on this species. Please try the buttons above to search for information from other sources. More

Yellow-bellied Flycatchers usually leave Illinois prior to the end of September. For the period from 1984 to 2007, the average departure date (statewide) is 28 September, and the median departure date is 27 September. As best I can determine right now, there are nine records for October or later, with three of these from the northern tier of the state. The table below lists the nine records. More

The Yellow-bellied Flycatcher has a vast range reaching up to roughly 5.3 million square kilometers. This bird can be found throughout all of North America, as well as Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Saint Pierre and with vagrant populations in Cuba, Greenland and Jamaica as well. This bird appears in temperate, tropical and subtropical forests as well as plantations and many wetland areas such as rivers and streams, bogs, marshes, swamps and peatlands. More

(Tyrannidae) Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Spring Male Head Illustration Head * Bill Shape: All-purpose * Eye Color: Brown. More

* The Yellow-bellied Flycatcher winters in semi-open habitats of Central America, including coffee plantations. Shade-grown coffee plantations have higher densities of Yellow-bellied Flycatchers than sun-grown coffee plantations. Habitat - Forest * Breeds in boreal coniferous forests and peatlands. Nests in cool, moist forests, bogs, swamps, and muskegs. More

Yellow-bellied Flycatchers wait on a perch low or in the middle of a tree and fly out to catch insects in flight, sometimes hovering over foliage. They sometimes eat berries or seeds. The Yellow-bellied Flycatcher's call note is transcribed as chu-wee, ascending in pitch. This is very different from the more common Least Flycatcher's dry "CHE-bek." References - * BirdLife International (2004). Empidonax flaviventris. 2006. More

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher is a member of the difficult to identify group of Empidonax flycatchers. Yellow-bellied Flycatchers are territorial in both the breeding season and in the winter, although winter territories are solitary in nature while breeding territories involve a pair. Early naturalists, egg collectors, and modern ornithologists all share the view that Yellow-bellied Flycatchers are very adept at hiding their nests, making detailed studies of breeding behavior difficult. More

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher nests in cool, moist conifer or mixed forests, bogs, swamps, and muskegs, landscapes that are often flat or poorly drained. Breeding habitat usually well stratified, with open canopy, saplings and seedlings, shrubs, and abundant, thick moss cover. It is one of the continent More

Notes by Susan Billetdeaux: The Yellow-bellied Flycatcher is one of the confusing "empids": small flycatchers with wing-bars who are all very similar in appearance. Other empids include Acadian, Least, Alder, and Willow. All the empids have a yellowish wash to their bellies, but Yellow-bellied Flycatchers also have yellowish throats. They are best identified by their songs and call notes. The song of the Yellow-bellied Flycatcher is a soft che-bunk, with the accent on the second syllable. The call note is a soft pyew. More

Yellow-bellied flycatchers wait on a perch low or in the middle of a tree and fly out to catch insects in flight, sometimes hovering over foliage. They sometimes eat berries or seeds. The yellow-bellied flycatcher's song is a dry "CHE-bek". The call is transcribed as chu-wee, ascending in pitch. More

The top side of the yellow-bellied flycatcher is an olive-green color, with a yellow belly. They have a almond-shaped, yellow eyering, dusky-green breast band, and two broad yellow or white wing bars. Voice A spiritless per-wee or chu-wee. They also say kilik. Habitat They are found in open woods, aspen forests, orchards, and shade trees. Diet While they occasionally eat fruit, yellow-bellied flycatchers mainly eat insects and other arthropods. More

The Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (Empidonax flaviventris) is a species of bird that is found in wet northern woods and spruce bogs across Canada and the northeastern United States. It is migratory and winters in southern Mexico and Central America. The adult has brown-olive upperparts and yellowish underparts. The wings and tail are dark brown-olive. It has a white eye ring, white wing bars, a small bill and short tail. The upper part of bill is dark and the lower part is orange to pink. More

The Yellow-bellied Flycatcher is a very unsuspicious bird, allowing persons to approach within a short distance. The Yellow-bellied Flycatcher is brownish olive above and yellowish below with whitish eye rings and wing bars. The Yellow-bellied Flycatcher is found in coniferous forests, alder thickets and high mountain bogs. Most Yellow-bellied Flycatcher nest sites are associated with standing water, sphagnum moss, conifers (spruce or hemlock), and the presence of high bush blueberries, alder, rhododendron or other shrubs. More

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher in Utah? So it's actually been a few weeks since this sighting, but I haven't had a chance till now to post about it. In any event, the story goes like this. On August 31st, I was birding the Salt Lake International Center with Jeff Bilsky and Paul Lombardi, when we found an empid that was yellow... That's it, it was yellow. Well okay, it was yellow, with dark wings, and stark yellowish wing-bars. More