Cordilleran Flycatcher
Cordilleran Flycatcher: Small flycatcher with olive-brown upperparts, yellow throat and belly separated by olive-gray breast, elongated white eye-ring, and pale wing-bars. Black bill is long and wide, and lower mandible is bright yellow. Weak fluttering flight with shallow wing beats.
● Song:
"pit-peet", "seet"
● Foraging & Feeding:
Cordilleran Flycatcher: Eats insects, berries, and seeds; forages by catching insects in mid-air.
● Breeding & nesting:
Cordilleran Flycatcher: Three to five white eggs with brown blotches at large end are laid in a nest made of small twigs and rootlets, lined with lichens, leaves, bark, moss, grass, and roots, and built up to 30 feet above the ground, far back in the recess of a ledge or tangle of vegetation; sometimes uses a tree cavity. Incubation ranges from 14 to 15 days and is carried out by the female.
● Similar species:
Cordilleran Flycatcher: Pacific-slope Flycatcher has smaller body and different breeding range and voice.