Tours where you can spot this bird
No tours linked yet.
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Empidonax flaviventris (Baird, WM & Baird, SF, 1843)
Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Empidonax flaviventris, breeds across western to south-eastern Canada and north-eastern USA, and spends the non-breeding season in Middle America. It is a small member of the tyrant flycatcher family. Its breeding places are wet northern woods, with spruce bogs especially favoured. The nest is a cup set in sphagnum moss on or close to the ground. Adults show greenish upperparts, yellowish underparts, a dusky chest, pale wing bars, a broad flat bill, and a short tail.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
- Breeding range
- North America: wc Canada to se Canada and ne USA
- Nonbreeding range
- Middle America
