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 LC    Least Flycatcher* Id (Atlas):
    Empidonax minimus

Description (10)
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Family
Tyrannidae (Tyrant-flycatchers)

Size
13 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Baird & Baird, 1843)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest, temperate forest, subtropical and tropical moist shrubland. From sea-level - 1,500 m.

Range (Guide)
Bahamas, Belize, Canada (P), Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, St Pierre and Miquelon (P), Turks and Caicos Islands, USA (B).

Vagrant to Jamaica.

Central Canada (southern Yukon and north-western interior east to southern Quebec and southern Maritime Provinces) southern in USA to north-eastern Colorado, northern Great Plains, New England and (in Appalachians) north-western Georgia. Winters both slopes of Mexico (southern from Sonora and Tamaulipas), rarely southern USA, south through Central America, at least casually to Costa Rica and central Panama.
 
Population
Estimated population is 14,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (139)...)

 
Least Flycatcher (Empidonax minimus) [XC524804]
     by id from Curtis S. Read Scout Reservation, Brant Lake, New York, United States (call)

 
Least Flycatcher (Empidonax minimus) [XC880104]
     by Andrew Spencer from RNP Los Tarrales, Suchitep\u00e9quez, Guatemala (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Probably diverged from other members of genus c. 1·8 million years ago, in late Pliocene or early Pleistocene.


References
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Files:
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