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Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

General description.

The Yellow-bellied Flycatcher is a very easy bird to identify due to its distinctive appearance and voice. This bird is usually found low in trees and shrubs. The Yellow-bellied Flycatcher is quiet, secretive bird. It feeds on a wide variety of insects including a large amount my ants. During the breeding season, this bird is monogamous. A pair nests on the ground or on a tree stump and builds a cup shaped nest out of twigs and rootlets. The female lays 3-5 white eggs and the pair raises and cares for the brood. A pair raises one brood per year. The Yellow-bellied Flycatcher is common and populations are stable.

Flight pattern.

Direct with shallow, rapid wing beats.

Breeding habits.

Monogamous.

Calls or song.

pse-ek! and per-WEE and chiu

Population and distribution.

Common.

Nesting habits.

The Yellow-bellied Flycatcher nests on ground or on a stump and lays 3-5 white in June.

Similar birds:

	Cordilleran Flycatcher
	Acadian Flycatcher

Birds in the same Family:

	Acadian Flycatcher
	Alder Flycatcher
	Ash-throated Flycatcher
	Black Phoebe
	Brown-crested Flycatcher
	Buff-breasted Flycatcher
	Caribbean Elaenia
	Cassin's Kingbird
	Cordilleran Flycatcher
	Couch's Kingbird
	Dusky Flycatcher
	Dusky-capped Flycatcher
	Eastern Kingbird
	Eastern Phoebe
	Eastern Wood Pewee
	Fork-tailed Flycatcher
	Gray Flycatcher
	Gray Kingbird
	Great Crested Flycatcher
	Great Kiskadee
	Greater Pewee
	Greenish Elaenia
	Hammond's Flycatcher
	La Sagra's Flycatcher
	Least Flycatcher
	Loggerhead Kingbird
	Northern Beardless Tyrannulet
	Nutting's Flycatcher
	Olive-sided Flycatcher
	Pacific-slope Flycatcher
	Say's Phoebe
	Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
	Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher
	Thick-billed Kingbird
	Tropical Kingbird
	Variegated Flycatcher
	Vermilion Flycatcher
	Western Kingbird
	Western Wood Pewee
	Willow Flycatcher