Pacific-slope Flycatcher

Pacific-slope Flycatcher

Pacific-slope Flycatcher: Small flycatcher, olive-brown upperparts, yellow throat and belly, olive-gray breast. Eye-ring is white and elongated. Wings are dark with two pale bars. Bill is long with dark upper mandible and bright yellow lower mandible. Weak fluttering flight on shallow wing beats.

● Song: "pseet-ptsick-seet"

● Foraging & Feeding: Pacific-slope Flycatcher: Hawks flying insects or gleans them from foliage; also eats berries and seeds.

● Breeding & nesting: Pacific-slope Flycatcher: Three to five white eggs with brown blotches near large end are laid in a moss-lined cup nest made of small twigs and rootlets, usually built against a tree trunk where the bark has split, in roots of a wind-felled tree, in a bank, or under the eave of a forest cabin. Incubation ranges from 14 to 15 days and is carried out by the female.

● Similar species: Pacific-slope Flycatcher: Cordilleran Flycatcher has a two-syllable call (as opposed to an up-slurred single note). Yellow-bellied Flycatcher has a shorter tail and stronger green tones.

Flight Pattern