Species: Empidonax minimus
Least Flycatcher
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accented on the second syllable (NGS 1983).
Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Tyrannidae
Genus
Empidonax
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Classification
Other Global Common Names
Mosquero Mímimo - moucherolle tchébec
Informal Taxonomy
Animals, Vertebrates - Birds - Perching Birds
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Craniata - Aves - Passeriformes - Tyrannidae - Empidonax - Banks and Browning (1995) rejected the use of the name E. PUSILLUS for this species.
Ecology and Life History
accented on the second syllable (NGS 1983).
Migration
false - false - true - Migrates north through U.S. to nesting areas April-June (Terres 1980).
Non-migrant
false
Locally Migrant
false
Food Comments
Eats mainly insects obtained by flycatching and hover-gleaning from perch under forest canopy or from fence post, wire, or other perch; also eats spiders, seeds, small fruits (Terres 1980).
Reproduction Comments
Clutch size is 2-6 (usually 4). Incubation lasts 14-16 days, by female (which male may feed). Young leave nest at 13-16 days, tended by both parents for up to 20 days after leaving nest.
Ecology Comments
In maple forests in Quebec, density averaged 1.7 pairs/ha (Darveau et al. 1992). In New Hampshire, least flycatchers locally excluded ASY (after second year) American redstarts from the best patches of habitat within a heterogeneous array of such patches (Sherry and Holmes 1988). In winter, solitary and sedentary, both sexes territorial (Stiles and Skutch 1989, Rappole and Warner 1980).
Length
13
Weight
10
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
1996-12-02
Global Status Last Changed
1996-12-02
Other Status
LC - Least concern
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
H - >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles) - H - BREEDS: southern Yukon to northern Saskatchewan and New Brunswick, south to southern British Columbia, northeastern Wyoming, eastern Nebraska, southern Missouri, south-central Indiana, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, and to southern Appalachians. WINTERS: northern Mexico regularly to Nicaragua, rarely to Costa Rica, casually to central Panama (Stiles and Skutch 1989).
Global Range Code
H
Global Range Description
>2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)