Hammond's Flycatcher

Hammond's Flycatcher

Taxobox
name = Hammond's Flycatcher
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Tyrannidae
genus = "Empidonax"
species = "E. hammondii"
binomial = "Empidonax hammondii"
binomial_authority = (Xantus de Vesey, 1858)

Hammond's Flycatcher, "Empidonax hammondii" is a small insect-eating bird. It is a small "Empidonax" flycatcher, with typical size ranging from 12.5-14.5 cm.

Adults have greyish-olive upperparts, darker on the wings and tail, with whitish underparts; they have a conspicuous white eye ring, white wing bars, a small bill and a short tail. The breast is washed with grey and the sides of the belly with yellow. Many species of Empidonax flycatchers look closely alike. The best way to distinguish species is by voice, by breeding habitat and/or range.

Their preferred breeding habitat is coniferous forests in highlands of the western United States, Alaska and Canada. They make a cup nest on a fork in a tree, usually high in a horizontal branch. Females usually lay 3-4 eggs.

These birds migrate to Mexico and Central America for the winter.

They wait on an open perch high or in the middle of a tree and fly out to catch insects in flight, (hawking), also sometimes picking insects from foliage while hovering, (gleaning).

The song is a multi versed hoarse "ssilit", "greeep", "silit", "pweet". The call is a sharp " peek".

The name of this bird commemorates William Alexander Hammond.

References

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

External links

* [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/search.html?Form=Search&SEARCHBY=Common&KEYWORDS=hammond%27s+flycatcher&showwhat=images&AGE=All&SEX=All&ACT=All&Search=Search&VIEW=All&ORIENTATION=All&RESULTS=24 Hammond's Flycatcher photo gallery] VIREO [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/species_image.php?species=Empidonax+hammondii Photo-High Res]
* [http://www.schmoker.org/BirdPics/Photos/Flycatchers/DUFL02.jpgPhoto-High Res] ; [http://www.schmoker.org/BirdPics/Flycatchers.html Article-(w/ 4-Photos of "E. hammondii")] – schmoker.org–"Flycatcher Pictures"


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