Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

Taxobox
name = Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Tyrannidae
genus = "Empidonax"
species = "E. flaviventris"
binomial = "Empidonax flaviventris"
binomial_authority = (Baird, 1843)

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. They make a cup nest in sphagnum moss on or near the ground.

These birds migrate to southern Mexico and Central America.

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.

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern

External links

* [http://audubon-print.com/yellow-bellied-flycatcher.html Yellow-bellied Flycatcher by John Audubon]
* [http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Yellow-bellied_Flycatcher.html Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Species Account] - Cornell Lab of Ornithology
* [http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i4630id.html Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - "Empidonax flaviventris"] - USGS Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter
* [http://www.sdakotabirds.com/species/yellow_bellied_flycatcher_info.htm Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Information] - South Dakota Birds and Birding