Tyrant-flycatchers (Tyrannidae)

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (Empidonax flaviventris) - HBW 9, p. 359

French: Moucherolle à ventre jaune German: Birkenschnäppertyrann Spanish: Mosquero Ventriamarillo

Taxonomy: Tyrannula flaviventris W. M. Baird and S. F. Baird, 1843, near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA.
Suggested as possibly closest to E. wrightii and E. difficilis/E. occidentalis. Monotypic.

Distribution: Breeds W Canada from C & N British Columbia and WC & S Mackenzie E to Newfoundland, Prince Edward I and Nova Scotia, and S into NE USA (E from N Minnesota and Great Lakes region, S into Pennsylvania, C New York, and disjunctly in West Virginia). Winters from SE & SW Mexico (on Caribbean slope from S Tamaulipas, on Pacific slope from Oaxaca) S to W Panama.