Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

Empidonax flaviventrisOrder: PASSERIFORMES Family: Flycatchers (Tyrannidae)

Codes: Common Name: YBFL Scientific Name: EMPFLN ITIS Taxonomic No.: 178338

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Overview

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher: Small flycatcher with olive-green upperparts, yellow underparts, and olive-green wash on breast. Spectacles are pale yellow. The wings are dark with two white bars. Feeds on a variety of insects and spiders. Weak fluttering flight with shallow rapid wing beats.

Range and Habitat

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher: Breeds from central Canada and Newfoundland south to Great Lakes region, northern New York, northern New England, and Maritime Provinces. Spends winters from Mexico to Panama.

Topo Map: Perching-like Body

Listen to Call

Voice Text

"pse-k", "per-WEE", "chiu"

Interesting Facts

The Yellow-bellied Flycatcher was first described in 1843 by Spencer Fullerton Baird, an American ornithologist and ichthyologist.

It winters in semi-open habitats of Central America, including coffee plantations. Shade-grown coffee plantations have higher densities than sun-grown coffee plantations.

It is the easiest of the eastern Empidonax flycatchers to identify.

A group of flycatchers has many collective nouns, including an "outfield", "swatting", "zapper", and "zipper" of flycatchers.

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Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

● Song: "pse-k", "per-WEE", "chiu"

● Foraging & Feeding: Yellow-bellied Flycatcher: Feeds on a variety of insects, including, beetles, moths, tent caterpillars, flies, ants, and some spiders.

● Breeding & nesting: Yellow-bellied Flycatcher: Three to five white eggs with brown spots at large end are laid in a nest made of twigs, rootlets, weeds, and moss, and lined with thin rootlets, grass, and fresh leaves. Nest is usually built two feet or less above the ground, atop a hillock of moss or upturned stumps among roots of fallen trees.

● Similar species: Yellow-bellied Flycatcher: Acadian Flycatcher has pale gray throat, buff to white wing-bars, larger bill, and yellow wash on belly and undertail coverts.

Flight Pattern

Weak fluttering flight with shallow rapid wing beats., Sallies from perch to hawk insects and returns to the same or nearby perch.

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Spring Male Body Illustration

● Range & Habitat: Yellow-bellied Flycatcher: Breeds from central Canada and Newfoundland south to Great Lakes region, northern New York, northern New England, and Maritime Provinces. Spends winters from Mexico to Panama.

^BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester

^Population

^MigrationMigratory

^Weight0.4 Ounces

Perching-like Body

Underparts

Belly, undertail coverts, chest, flanks, and foreneck.

Upperparts

Back, rump, hindneck, wings, and crown.

Breast

The upper front part of a bird.

4 and 6 letter alpha codes

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus) and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante (2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42 (Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

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