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SUMMARY
Overview
Pacific-slope Flycatcher: Small flycatcher, olive-brown upperparts, yellow throat and belly, olive-gray breast. Eye-ring is white and elongated. Wings are dark with two pale bars. Bill is long with dark upper mandible and bright yellow lower mandible. Weak fluttering flight on shallow wing beats.
Range and Habitat
Pacific-slope Flycatcher: Breeds from Alaska south along the coast to Baja California. Spends winters south of the U.S.-Mexico border. Preferred habitats include moist, shaded coniferous or mixed forests.
SONGS AND CALLS
Listen to Call
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Similar Sounding
Cordilleran Flycatcher Voice
Voice Text
"pseet-ptsick-seet"
INTERESTING FACTS
- The species name of the Pacific-slope Flycatcher, difficilis, is appropriate. It means "difficult," and this species is extremely difficult to distinguish from the similar Cordilleran Flycatcher.
- These two species were formerly considered a single species known as Western Flycatcher.
- The population on the Channel Islands may actually be a distinct species. It is larger than mainland birds, has a longer bill, a paler chest, slightly different vocalizations, and differs genetically.
- A group of flycatchers has many collective nouns, including an "outfield", "swatting", "zapper", and "zipper" of flycatchers.
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