White-throated Flycatcher

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Tyrannidae

Genus

Empidonax

eBird Code

whtfly1

Subspecies (3)

• Empidonax albigularis albigularis

  highlands of eastern Mexico (southern Tamaulipas to central Veracruz), and southern Mexico (eastern Guerrero and northern Oaxaca and in Chiapas), Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, at least some populations wintering at lower elevations (or northern populations also migrating south?)

• Empidonax albigularis australis

  highlands of Nicaragua southward to western Panama (Chiriquí)

• Empidonax albigularis timidus

  northwestern Mexico, breeding in highlands from southwestern Chihuahua to Morelos; northern populations (Chihuahua to northern Nayarit) migratory, wintering at lower elevations southward to Oaxaca, but resident Nayarit to Morelos