- Dusky Flycatcher
Taxobox
name = Dusky Flycatcher
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo =Passeriformes
familia = Tyrannidae
genus = "Empidonax "
species = "E. oberholseri"
binomial = "Empidonax oberholseri"
binomial_authority = Phillips,1939 The Dusky Flycatcher, "Empidonax oberholseri", is a small insect-eatingbird of thetyrant flycatcher family.Adults have olive-grey upperparts, darker on the wings and tail, with whitish underparts; they have a noticeable medium-width white eye ring, white wing bars and a medium length tail. The breast is washed with olive-grey. The bill is mainly dark. It is a bit smaller than the
Gray Flycatcher and a bit larger than theHammond's Flycatcher .Their breeding habitat is mountain slopes and foothills with brush and scattered trees across western
North America . They make a cup nest low in a vertical fork in a shrub.These birds migrate to southern
Arizona andMexico . As non-breeding residents in the south of their migration range, they arepassage migrant s over the deserts of the southwest US, the Mojave, Sonoran, andChihuahuan Desert s, where they make their stops along theflyway .They wait on an open perch and fly out to catch insects in flight, (hawking), also sometimes picking insects from foliage while hovering, (gleaning).
The call is a sad "dew-hic".
The scientific name commemorates the American ornithologist
Harry Church Oberholser .References
* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
External links
* [http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i4690id.html "Empidinax oberholseri"]
* [http://www.birdphotography.com/species/dufl.html Pictures]
* [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/search.html?Form=Search&SEARCHBY=Common&KEYWORDS=dusky+flycatcher&showwhat=images&AGE=All&SEX=All&ACT=All&Search=Search&VIEW=All&ORIENTATION=All&RESULTS=24 Dusky Flycatcher photo gallery] VIREO [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/species_image.php?species=Empidonax+oberholseri Photo-High Res--(Close-up)]
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