Olive-sided flycatcher Contopus cooperi
Identification Tips:
Length: 6.25 inches
Large, triangular head
Dark face with indistinct eye ring
Fairly large, dark bill
Dark olive upperparts and sides ...
Olive-sided Flycatcher Behaviour
No observations regarding Olive-sided Flycatcher behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Olive-sided Flycatchers ...
Olive-sided Flycatchers are a passive sit-and-wait predator, perching on a prominent limb until an insect sighted, then actively pursuing it.
The Olive-sided Flycatcher is most often observed as it perches high in the tree tops, giving out an occasional pip-pip call and flying out to capture flying insects.
Olive-sided Flycatcher
(Contopus cooperi)
Status: Vagrant.
Last recorded on site in 2005
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER Or PE-PE, Muscicapa Cooperi, Nutt. Man., vol. i. p. 282.
TYRANNUS BOREALIS, NORTHERN TYRANT, Swains. and Rich. F. Bor. Amer., vol. ii. p. 141.
Family Tyrannidae
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Contopus borealis (Swainson) ...
Olive-sided Flycatcher (Contopus cooperi)
Willow Flycatcher (Empidonax trailii)
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (Empidona falviventris) ...
Olive-sided Flycatcher
The Olive-sided Flycatcher (Contopus cooperi) is said to have the longest migration route of any flycatcher that breeds in North America. They winter mostly in South America, down as far as Peru, and return to breed in May.
Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi. Rare in spring and fall in all regions. Found in forest habitats, primarily with emerging dead limbs.
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Spring Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Willow Flycatcher
Spring Sighting Information: uncommon
Nest on or near Refuge? no ...
Olive-sided Flycatcher, Contopus cooperi
Greater Pewee, Contopus pertinax
Western Wood-Pewee, Contopus sordidulus
Eastern Wood-Pewee, Contopus virens
Cuban Pewee, Contopus caribaeus (A)
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Empidonax flaviventris ...
Elias which travels through spruce muskeg I had : Bohemian Waxwing, Which-crowned Sparrow, Lesser Yellowleg, Olive-sided Flycatcher, White-winged Crossbills, Hermit Thrush, Swainson's Thrush.
[...] expeditions, and they are joined by Eastern Wood-Pewees (one is still singing!) and unidentifiable Empidonax flycatchers. I even tracked down my first-ever-in-Queens Olive-sided Flycatcher the other [...] ...
Olive-sided Flycatcher (Contopus cooperi)
Say's Phoebe (Sayornis saya)
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Tyrannus forficatus)
Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus)
Western Kingbird (Tyrannus verticalis)
Willow Flycatcher (Empidonax traillii) ...
 See also: Flycatcher, Pewee, Kingbird, Wood-Pewee, Phoebe
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