GREEN BIRDS SEEN IN NORTH AMERICA

Pacific-Slope Flycatcher

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Empidonax Difficilis

The Pacific-slope Flycatcher has a peaked crown and a faint white to yellow teardrop-shaped patch around each eye.

Dull olive or brown feathers comprise the upperparts and back, with more pale and yellow feathers beneath.

They have relatively short wings, longer tails, gray legs, and faint yellow wing bars.

BILL: broad with a lower mandible that varies from yellow to light pink, distinguishing them from other flycatchers.

SIZE: small, measuring about 5.5 - 6.7 inches in length, with a wingspan of 7.9 -9.1 inches.

WEIGHT: weighs about 8 - 12 grams.

COLOR: olive, brown, white and yellow.

Insects and spiders and occasionally eat berries and seeds.

 Coastal regions of western North America, including the Pacific Ocean and the southern Gulf of California, as far north as British Columbia and southern Alaska.

Coastal regions of western North America, including the Pacific Ocean and the southern Gulf of California, as far north as British Columbia and southern Alaska.

CALL: Most common is a sweet, upslurred "peeWEET!" (male) and a high-pitched, short, sibilant "tsip" (female).

SONG: A high-pitched series of three phrases..."ptsip..seewi...tseet".

NEST: The female builds an open cup nest using mosses, strips of bark, grasses, and leaves, lined with finer vegetative material.

EGGS: 3 or 4 eggs.

They forage by observing from a perch and then flying out to capture insects in mid-air, or hovering and gleaning insects from foliage and branches.

The oldest Pacific-slope Flycatcher on record was about 6 years, 11 months old.

SOURCES:
https://www.birds-of-north-america.net
https://en.wikipedia.org
https://www.allaboutbirds.org
https://www.sdakotabirds.com
https://animaldiversity.org