Western Flycatcher
Empidonax difficilis
Also known as: Pacific-slope Flycatcher · Cordilleran Flycatcher
Aves
UNCOMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- 5-9 yrs
- Size
- Small
- Diet
- Insectivore
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Social
- Solitary
- Biome
- Temperate forest
- Range
- North America
- Movement
- Flight
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Camouflage
- Status
- Uncommon
About
Western Flycatcher are small insectivorous birds in the family Tyrannidae. They are native to western North America, where they breed in the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Coast forests and mountain ranges from California to Alaska and south to central Mexico.
Life cycle
- 1.eggA small clutch of speckled eggs is incubated in a cup nest, turned and kept warm by the parent.
- 2.hatchlingA pink, blind hatchling is fed by its parents in the nest, gaping its bill at every visit.
- 3.juvenileA feathered juvenile fledges from the nest, learning to fly and to forage close to its parents.
- 4.adultFully grown with adult plumage and song.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Tyrannidae
- Genus
- Empidonax
- Species
- Empidonax difficilis