Breeding Location:
Bushes, shrubs, and thickets, Mountains
Breeding Type:
Monogamous
Breeding Population:
Increasing
Egg Color:
White
Number of Eggs:
3 - 4
Incubation Days:
12 - 16
Egg Incubator:
Female
Nest Material:
Grasses, weeds, and bark, lined with plant down, soft grasses, and feathers.
Migration:
Migratory
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Overview
Dusky Flycatcher: Small flycatcher with olive-gray upperparts and white or yellow tinged underparts. The upper breast has a pale olive wash. Eye has faint eye-ring. Bill is black except for orange base of lower mandible. The legs and feet are black. Weak fluttering flight with shallow wing beats.
Range and Habitat
Dusky Flycatcher: Breeds from British Columbia and western South Dakota south to southern California, central Arizona, and northern New Mexico. Spends winters south of the U.S.-Mexico border, and rarely in southern California. Preferred habitats include woodlands containing tall trees and tall undergrowth, mountain chaparral, and open, brushy coniferous forests.
Breeding and Nesting
Dusky Flycatcher: Three to four white eggs are laid in a neat, twiggy cup set low in the crotch of a shrub or small tree. Incubation ranges from 12 to 16 days and is carried out by the female.
Foraging and Feeding
Dusky Flycatcher: Eats flying insects; forages low over shrubby vegetation.
Readily Eats
Meal Worms
Vocalization
Dusky Flycatcher: Song is a variety of melancholy notes.
Similar Species
Dusky Flycatcher: Hammond’s Flycatcher is smaller and darker below. Gray Flycatcher is grayer above and rangier.
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