Pine flycatcher

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Pine flycatcher
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Empidonax
Species:
E. affinis
Binomial name
Empidonax affinis
(Swainson, 1827)
Empidonax affinis map.svg

The pine flycatcher (Empidonax affinis) is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae and the tyrant flycatchers family. It is found in the montane tropical and subtropical coniferous forests of Mexico and southwestern Guatemala. [2] A vagrant bird found in the Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona, in late May 2016, was the first record north of Mexico. [3] (An erroneous 2009 record from Choke Canyon State Park in southern Texas [4] was later shown to be a misidentified Least Flycatcher.) [5]

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References

  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Empidonax affinis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T22699868A93752814. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22699868A93752814.en . Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. Edwards, Ernest Preston; Butler, Edward Murrell (1998). A Field Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Adjacent Areas: Belize, Guatemala and El Salvador . University of Texas Press. p.  104. ISBN   978-0-292-72091-6.
  3. "#ABArare – Pine Flycatcher – Arizona". 31 May 2016.
  4. "Rare 'dinky' bird migrates to US for first time". Yahoo! News. Yahoo! Inc. Associated Press. 9 January 2009. Archived from the original on January 20, 2009. Retrieved 2009-01-09.
  5. "Choke Canyon flycatcher".