Acadian Flycatcher

Acadian Flycatcher

Taxobox
name = Acadian Flycatcher


status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Tyrannidae
genus = "Empidonax"
species = "E. virescens"
binomial = "Empidonax virescens"
binomial_authority = (Vieillot, 1818)

The Acadian Flycatcher or Green-crested Flycatcher, "Empidonax virescens", is a small insect-eating bird of the tyrant flycatcher family.

Adults have olive upperparts, darker on the wings and tail, with whitish underparts; they have a white eye ring, white wing bars and a wide bill. The breast is washed with olive. The upper part of the bill is dark; the lower part is yellowish.

Their breeding habitat is deciduous forests, often near water, across the eastern United States and southwestern Ontario. They make a loose cup nest in a horizontal fork in a tree or shrub.

These birds migrate through eastern Mexico and the Caribbean, (where they are passage migrants), to southern Central America and the very northwest of South America, in the countries of Colombia, western Venezuela, and Ecuador.

They wait on a perch in the middle of a tree and fly out to catch insects in flight-(hawking), also sometimes picking insects from foliage while hovering-(gleaning). They may eat some berries and seeds.

This bird's song is an explosive "peet-sa". The call is a soft "peet". They also have a call similar to that of the Northern Flicker.

The numbers of these birds have declined somewhat in the southern parts of their range. Brown-headed Cowbirds lay eggs in the nests of these birds in some areas.

Curiously, there are no official records of this bird walking.

References

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

External links

* [http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i4650id.html Acadian Flycatcher - "Empidonax virescens"] USGS Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter
* [http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Acadian_Flycatcher.html Acadian Flycatcher Species Account] - Cornell Lab of Ornithology
* [http://www.sdakotabirds.com/species/acadian_flycatcher_info.htm Acadian Flycatcher Information] - South Dakota Birds and Birding
* [http://ibc.hbw.com/ibc/phtml/especie.phtml?idEspecie=4993 Acadian Flycatcher videos] on the Internet Bird Collection
* [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/search.html?Form=Search&SEARCHBY=Common&KEYWORDS=acadian+flycatcher&showwhat=images&AGE=All&SEX=All&ACT=All&Search=Search&VIEW=All&ORIENTATION=All&RESULTS=24 Acadian Flycatcher photo gallery] VIREO [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/species_image.php?species=Empidonax+virescens Photo-High Res--(Close-up)]
* [http://ontfin.com/Birds/displayimage.php?album=718&pos=0 Photo-High Res] ; [http://ontfin.com/Birds/thumbnails.php?album=718 Article] STIVERphotos


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