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Yellow-bellied FlycatcherThe Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Empidonax flaviventris, is a small insect-eating bird of the tyrant flycatcher family. Adults have brownish-olive upperparts, darker on the wings and tail, with yellowish underparts; they have a white eye ring, white wing bars, a small bill and a short tail. The upper part of the bill is dark; the lower part is orange-pink. Their breeding habitat is wet northern woods, especially spruce bogs, across Canada and the northeastern United States. They make a cup nest in sphagnum moss on or near the ground. These birds migrate to southern Mexico and Central America. They wait on a perch low or in the middle of a tree and fly out to catch insects in flight, sometimes hovering over foliage. They sometimes eat berries or seeds. The song is a mournful whistle. The call is chu-wee, ascending in pitch.
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