The Dusky Flycatcher is a gray-green Empidonax of open mountain shrubs and forest edges in the Great Basin and Rocky Mountains. It is nearly identical to Hammond's Flycatcher but is best identified by habitat — forest edges and open shrubs — and its distinctive call note. It was described as a separate species only in 1932.
Habitat
Mountain shrubs, chaparral, and open forest edges of western North America
Diet
Insects caught in aerial sallies
How common
Common
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