Cordilleran Flycatcher

Empidonax occidentalisOrder: PASSERIFORMES Family: Flycatchers (Tyrannidae)

Codes: Common Name: COFL Scientific Name: EMPOCC ITIS Taxonomic No.: 554255

Head

Topo Map: Perching-like Head

Bill Shape: All-purpose
Eye Color: Dark brown.
Head Pattern: Plain
Crown Color: Olive-brown
Forehead Color: Olive-brown
Nape Color: Olive-brown
Throat Color: Pale Yellow
Cere color: No Data

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Body

Topo Map: Perching-like Body

Length Range: 14-15 cm (5.5-6 in)
Weight: 11 g (0.4 oz)
Size: Size 2. Small (5 - 9 in)
Color: White, Brown, Yellow, Olive
Underparts: Pale yellow with olive-brown breast.
Upperparts: Olive-brown
Back Pattern: Solid
Belly Pattern: Solid
Breast Pattern: Solid

Flight

Topo Map: Perching-like Flight

Flight Pattern: Weak fluttering flight with shallow wing beats. Hawks insects by flying forth to take them in air and returning to perch.
Wingspan Range: 20-23 cm (8-9 in)
Wing Shape: Pointed-Wings
Tail Shape: Forked Tail
Tail Pattern: Solid
Upper Tail: Dark olive-brown
Under Tail: Dark olive-brown
Leg Color: Gray-black

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Cordilleran Flycatcher

Cordilleran Flycatcher: Small flycatcher with olive-brown upperparts, yellow throat and belly separated by olive-gray breast, elongated white eye-ring, and pale wing-bars. Black bill is long and wide, and lower mandible is bright yellow. Weak fluttering flight with shallow wing beats.

● Song: "pit-peet", "seet"

● Foraging & Feeding: Cordilleran Flycatcher: Eats insects, berries, and seeds; forages by catching insects in mid-air.

● Breeding & nesting: Cordilleran Flycatcher: Three to five white eggs with brown blotches at large end are laid in a nest made of small twigs and rootlets, lined with lichens, leaves, bark, moss, grass, and roots, and built up to 30 feet above the ground, far back in the recess of a ledge or tangle of vegetation; sometimes uses a tree cavity. Incubation ranges from 14 to 15 days and is carried out by the female.

● Similar species: Cordilleran Flycatcher: Pacific-slope Flycatcher has smaller body and different breeding range and voice.

Flight Pattern

Weak fluttering flight with shallow wing beats. Hawks insects by flying forth to take them in air and returning to perch.

● Range & Habitat: Cordilleran Flycatcher: Breeds from Alberta south through Nevada and Rocky Mountains to southeastern Arizona, southern New Mexico, and western Texas. Winters south of U.S.-Mexico border. Preferred habitats include mountain forests and wooded canyons.

^BreedingMonogamous

^PopulationWidespread

^MigrationMigratory

^Weight0.4 Ounces

Perching-like Head

Perching-like Body

Perching-like Flight

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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