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title: "Alder Flycatcher"
description: "Empidonax alnorum — Birds. The alder flycatcher (Empidonax alnorum) is a small insect-eating bird in the tyrant flycatcher family."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/alder-flycatcher
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Alder Flycatcher

> Empidonax alnorum — Birds. The alder flycatcher (Empidonax alnorum) is a small insect-eating bird in the tyrant flycatcher family.

- Scientific name: *Empidonax alnorum*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest)
- iNaturalist observations: 5635
- Wikidata: [Q681933](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q681933)
- iNaturalist taxon: [16620](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/16620)

## Names

- en: Alder Flycatcher
- de: Erlentyrann
- es: Papamoscas Ailero
- fr: Moucherolle des aulnes
- nl: Elzenfeetiran
- pt: Papa-moscas-de-alder
- pl: Empidonka olchowa

## Countries with the most observations

US (1304), CA (992), CO (38), PE (23), HN (18), MX (13), PA (12), BR (9), CR (9), AR (4), BO (4), SV (4)

## Summary

The alder flycatcher (Empidonax alnorum) is a small insect-eating bird in the tyrant flycatcher family. The genus name Empidonax is from Ancient Greek empis, "gnat", and anax, "master". The specific alnorum is Latin and means "of the alders".

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alder_flycatcher

## Photo

![Alder Flycatcher](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/alder-flycatcher/medium.jpg)

Photo: Joshua Smith · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/286161325

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/alder-flycatcher?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).