GREEN BIRDS SEEN IN NORTH AMERICA

Dusky Flycatcher 

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Empidonax Oberholseri 

Adults have olive-gray upperparts, darker on the wings and tail, with whitish underparts; they have a noticeable medium-width white eye-ring, white wing bars and a medium-length tail.

The breast is washed with olive-gray and the belly is faintly yellow.

The bill is mainly dark. It is a bit smaller than the American grey flycatcher and a bit larger than the Hammond's flycatcher.

Juveniles are pale gray with a yellowish bill.

BILL: dark and small

SIZE: measures about 5.1 - 6 inches in length, with a wingspan of 7.9 - 9.1 inches.

WEIGHT: weighs about 9.3 - 11.4 grams.

COLOR: olive-gray, white and yellow.

Insects.

Mountain slopes and foothills with brush and scattered trees (especially ponderosa pine).

Southern Arizona and Mexico, the southwest United States, the Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan Deserts.

CALL: A dry "whit", is the common call and a sad "dew-hic", given by the male is the less common call.

SONG: Variable songs of "chirp", "greeep", or "pweet".

NEST: The female builds a cup-shaped nest made of woven grasses and plant material lined with grass, hair, plant down, lichen, and feathers.

EGGS: 2 - 5 dull white eggs, occasionally spotted with brown.

INCUBATION: 15 - 16 days.

NESTLING PHASE: 15 - 20 days.

They forage in typical flycatcher fashion, observing from a perch and flying out to catch passing insects.

They will also sometimes hover to glean insects from foliages or twigs.

SOURCES: https://www.birds-of-north-america.net

                   https://en.wikipedia.org

                   https://www.allaboutbirds.org

                   https://www.sdakotabirds.com