Quantcast

Cordilleran Flycatcher

Empidonax occidentalisOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Flycatchers (Tyrannidae)
Cordilleran Flycatcher Spring Male Head Illustration

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
Cordilleran Flycatcher Spring Male Body Illustration

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
Cordilleran Flycatcher Spring Male Flight Illustration

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
.
Bird database and its related content, illustrations and media is Copyright © 2002 - 2007  Whatbird.com
All rights reserved. No part of this web site may be reproduced without written permission from Mitch Waite Group.
 Privacy Policy.
Percevia® Registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Bird Call Credits: The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Martyn Stewart, http://www.naturesound.org, Redmond, Washington USA. The reuse or copying of bird calls in this database is strictly forbidden.
Family Flycatcher (Tyrannidae)_blue
Species Empidonax occidentalis
Length5.5 - 6 Inches
Wingspan8.5 Inches

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.
Cordilleran Flycatcher Spring Male Body Illustration
● 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