Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Acadian Flycatcher Scientific Classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Tyrannidae Genus: Empidonax Species: virescens Binomial name Empidonax virescens The Acadian Flycatcher, Empidonax virescens, is a small insect-eating bird of the tyrant flycatcher family. Adults have olive upperparts, darker on the wings and tail, with whitish underparts; they have a white eye ring, white wing bars and a wide bill. The breast is washed with olive. The upper part of the bill is dark; the lower part is yellowish. Their breeding habitat is deciduous forests, often near water, across the eastern United States and southwestern Ontario. They make a loose cup nest in a horizontal fork in a tree or shrub. These birds migrate to Central America and northern South America. They wait on a perch in the middle of a tree and fly out to catch insects in flight, also sometimes picking insects from foliage while hovering. They may eat some berries and seeds. This bird's song is peet-sa. The call is a soft peet. They also have a call similar to that of the Northern Flicker. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.