Cordilleran Flycatcher
The Cordilleran Flycatcher is olive-brown above with a yellow throat and belly separated by a dusky olive breast. It has an elongated white eye ring and light wing bars. Fall birds may be duller. Its bill is long and wide and the lower mandible is bright yellow. The Cordilleran Flycatcher is identical in appearance to the Pacific-slope Flycatcher, distinguishable only by voice and range. Its song is a thin, high whee-seet.

The Cordilleran Flycatcher is the common, yellow-bellied Empidonax flycatcher in the mountains of the the western interior. It breeds from Alberta south through Nevada and Rocky Mountains to southeastern Arizona, southern New Mexico and western Texas and winters south of the U.S.-Mexico border. The Cordilleran Flycatcher inhabits mountain forests and wooded canyons.
Cordilleran Flycatcher Range Map

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