Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Empidonax flaviventris
ORDER: PASSERIFORMES
FAMILY: TYRANNIDAE
IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern
The easiest eastern Empidonax to identify, the Yellow-bellied Flycatcher is a bird of the boreal forests and bogs. Its yellow underparts distinguish it from the other eastern Empidonax
Appearance
Flycatchers
Adult Description
- Small flycatcher.
- Large head; rounded to almost crested.
- Eyering, throat and breast yellowish.
- Two broad yellow or white wingbars.
Immature Description
Similar to adults
Field MarksHelp
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Adult
- Mostly bright olive
- Pale yellow belly with darker green breast
- Two white wing-bars
- Pale eye-ring
- © Byard Miller, East Inlet Road, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, June 2008
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Adult
- Pale yellow belly with olive green breast and head
- Pale eye-ring
- Two-toned bill black above, yellow-orange below
- Two white wing bars
- © Christopher L. Wood, New York
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Adult
- Pale yellow belly sometimes surrounded by "vest" of darked olive
- Bold eye ring
- Short tail
- Olive green on head, face and throat
- © Byard Miller, East Inlet Road, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, June 2008
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Immature
- Dull olive green on head and back
- Dark face blends into paler olive throat
- Pale yellow-white underparts
- Bold, buffy wing-bars
- © Tim Lenz, Mt. Pleasant, Ithaca, New York, August 2008
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Adult
- Bright olive-green head and back
- Two white wing-bars
- Pale edges on flight feathers
- White eye ring
- © Misha_K, Montrose Point, Chicago, Illinois, May 2009
Similar Species
- "Western" Flycatchers (Cordilleran and Pacific-slope) have teardrop-shaped eyering and duller wing coverts that do not contrast with wingbars. Also longer tail and shorter primaries.