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Acadian Flycatcher
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 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.
References
Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
External links
Acadian Flycatcher - Empidonax virescens USGS Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter
Acadian Flycatcher Species Account - Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Acadian Flycatcher Information - South Dakota Birds and Birding
Acadian Flycatcher videos on the Internet Bird Collection
Acadian Flycatcher photo gallery VIREO Photo-High Res--(Close-up)
Photo-High Res; Article STIVERphotos
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