The bird genus Empidonax includes a group of small insect-eating birds of the tyrant flycatcher family (Tyrannidae).
The empidonax flycatchers are similar in apperance and are very difficult to tell apart. They are mostly olive above with paler under parts, wing bars and eye rings. The most effective way to differentiate them is by habitat, range and voice in the breeding season.
They often flick their wings and tails rapidly.
Species:
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (Empidonax flaviventris)
- Acadian Flycatcher (Empidonax virescens)
- Alder Flycatcher (Empidonax alnorum)
- Willow Flycatcher (Empidonax traillii)
- White-throated Flycatcher (Empidonax albigularis)
- Least Flycatcher (Empidonax minimus)
- Hammond’s Flycatcher (Empidonax hammondii)
- Gray Flycatcher (Empidonax wrightii)
- Dusky Flycatcher (Empidonax oberholseri)
- Pine Flycatcher (Empidonax affinis)
- Pacific-slope Flycatcher (Empidonax difficilis)
- Cordilleran Flycatcher (Empidonax occidentalis)
- Yellowish Flycatcher (Empidonax flavescens)
- Buff-breasted Flycatcher (Empidonax fulvifrons)
- Black-capped Flycatcher (Empidonax atriceps)
