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Buff-breasted Flycatcher

Empidonax fulvifrons

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestDomed nestTiny · 8 g
Buff-breasted Flycatcher (Empidonax fulvifrons), photo 1
Photo: ADJ82 · CC BY 4.0
Buff-breasted Flycatcher (Empidonax fulvifrons), photo 2
Photo: Bettina Arrigoni · CC BY 2.0
Buff-breasted Flycatcher (Empidonax fulvifrons), photo 3
Photo: Greg Schechter from San Francisco, USA · CC BY 2.0
Buff-breasted Flycatcher (Empidonax fulvifrons), photo 4
Photo: Greg Schechter from San Francisco, USA · CC BY 2.0
Buff-breasted Flycatcher (Empidonax fulvifrons), photo 5
Photo: Greg Schechter from San Francisco, USA · CC BY 2.0
Buff-breasted Flycatcher (Empidonax fulvifrons), photo 6
Photo: Bettina Arrigoni · CC BY 2.0
Buff-breasted Flycatcher (Empidonax fulvifrons), photo 7
Photo: Bettina Arrigoni · CC BY 2.0
Buff-breasted Flycatcher (Empidonax fulvifrons), photo 8
Photo: Bettina Arrigoni · CC BY 2.0
Buff-breasted Flycatcher (Empidonax fulvifrons), photo 9
Photo: Bettina Arrigoni · CC BY 2.0
Buff-breasted Flycatcher (Empidonax fulvifrons), photo 10
Photo: Bettina Arrigoni · CC BY 2.0

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The buff-breasted flycatcher is about 13 cm (5.1 in) long and weighs 6.9 to 9.3 g (0.24 to 0.33 oz). It is the smallest member of genus Empidonax in the US and among the smallest overall. The sexes are alike. Subspecies E. f. pygmaeus is the best known. Adults have dull buffy white lores and a faint dull buffy white eye-ring on an otherwise buffy greenish brown face. Their crown, nape, and upperparts are a darker buffy greenish brown than the face. Their tail is grayish brown with paler grayish white outer webs on the feathers. Voice: The buff-breasted flycatcher's song in Guatemala and Honduras is "a rapid ti'beuu! or pi'dew!" and its call there "a soft, liquid wit". Further north its song is described as chee-lick or chee-lick chou" and its call as "a single pit note".

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When to see the Buff-breasted Flycatcher

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Buff-breasted Flycatcher

Regular range

The map shades 7 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Mexico United States Guatemala Honduras Costa Rica Nicaragua El Salvador

About the Buff-breasted Flycatcher

The buff-breasted flycatcher is a small passerine bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found from the southwestern U.S.A. to Honduras.

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Easily confused with

Black-capped Flycatcher (Empidonax atriceps) Black-capped FlycatcherEmpidonax atricepsThe black-capped flycatcher is 10 to 12 cm (3.9 to 4.7 in) long and weighs about 9 g (0.32 oz). Yellowish Flycatcher (Empidonax flavescens) Yellowish FlycatcherEmpidonax flavescensThe yellowish flycatcher is 12.5 to 14 cm (4.9 to 5.5 in) long and weighs 9 to 16 g (0.32 to 0.56 oz). White-throated Flycatcher (Empidonax albigularis) White-throated FlycatcherEmpidonax albigularisThe white-throated flycatcher is 12 to 14 cm (4.7 to 5.5 in) long.

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