Least Flycatcher (Empidonax minimus)
- HABITAT - The Least Flycatcher breed in deciduous or mixed forests and occasionally in coniferous groves. They prefer aspen groves, orchards, shade trees and open woods. Least Flycatcher spend the spring and early summer in Canada and north central U.S. They head south as early as mid-August, back to Mexico and Central America, where that hangout in woodland edges and second growth forests.
- DIET - Least Flycatcher’s diet is composed primarily of insects that are captured during flight or gleaned from foliage of trees. In the winter, some birds will include fruit and seeds in their diet.
- FACTS - The Least Flycatcher is the smallest and greyest of the Empidonax flycatchers group in the east, and it is often common near woodland edges, where it perches in the open and sings out its snappy “chebek” song,
LEAST Flycatcher GALLERY
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