Dusky Flycatcher Images

Dusky Flycatcher Images, Facts and Information:

Empidonax oberholseri

• Dusky Flycatchers are small with olive-gray upperparts and white or yellowish tinged underparts. Their eyes have faint eye rings and their upper breasts have a darker band.
• Dusky Flycatchers are migratory. Dusky Flycatchers breed from British Columbia and western South Dakota south to southern California, Arizona, and northern New Mexico. They spend winters south of the U.S. – Mexico border and in southern Arizona and Texas. Dusky Flycatchers prefer habitats that include open brushy coniferous forests, mountains chaparral, tall trees and woodlands.
• Dusky Flycatchers eat flying insects.
• Dusky Flycatchers lay 3 to 4 eggs which hatch in 12 to 16 days. The females incubate and they are monogamous.
• A group of flycatchers can be called a “swatting”, “zapper”, “zipper” or and “outfield” of flycatchers.
• Dusky Flycatchers can live to be more than 8 years old.

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