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1.86 (0.478 - 3.2)|
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Excerpts Adapted from the Birds of Saskatchewan:
More often observed during migration than on its breeding grounds, the elusive Yellow-bellied Flycatcher is often overlooked during its brief midsummer sojourn deep in the boreal region. It is an uncommon but widespread summer resident across the boreal forests of Canada from southern Yukon to Newfoundland, and south into northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Maine (Gross and Lowther 2011). It winters from central Mexico to western Panama.
Yellow-bellied Flycatchers prefer moist to wet, structurally complex mixed coniferous forest and peatlands dominated by black spruce, balsam fir, or tamarack, with a dense understory (Crins 2007, Gross and Lowther 2011). During migration, Yellow-bellied Flycatchers occur in a variety of wooded habitats.
Although seldom otherwise encountered, the Yellow-bellied Flycatcher "is found as an uncommon breeding bird whenever ornithologists examine its remote bog habitat? (Smith 1996). It breeds from the subarctic region south to southern edge of the southern boreal region in the Nisbet Provincial Forest (Barton 2004), at Marean Lake in Greenwater Lake Provincial Park, and in the Porcupine Hills. It is an uncommon transient across the parklands and northern mixed prairie, but is "virtually unknown? in the southwest (Smith 1996). As a migrant at Last Mountain Bird Observatory it is outnumbered by the Alder Flycatcher in a ratio of 25:1.
Original text by Ryan Dudragne. Text adapted by Daniel J. Sawatzky
Read more about the Yellow-bellied Flycatcher in the Birds of Saskatchewan here.
Recommended citation: Latremouille, L. M. 2025. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher in Latremouille, L. M., S. L. Van Wilgenburg, C. B. Jardine, D. Lepage, A. R. Couturier, D. Evans, D. Iles, and K. L. Drake (eds.). 2025. The Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Saskatchewan, 2017-2021. Birds Canada. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan https://sk.birdatlas.ca/accounts/speciesaccount.jsp?sp=YBFL&lang=en [09 Nov 2025]
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