---
title: "Oeverfeetiran"
description: "Empidonax difficilis — Vogels. The western flycatcher (Empidonax difficilis) is a small insectivorous bird in the family Tyrannidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/western-flycatcher
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Oeverfeetiran

> Empidonax difficilis — Vogels. The western flycatcher (Empidonax difficilis) is a small insectivorous bird in the family Tyrannidae.

- Scientific name: *Empidonax difficilis*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos), `mountains` (Bergen)
- iNaturalist observations: 17256
- Wikidata: [Q585125](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q585125)
- iNaturalist taxon: [16598](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/16598)

## Names

- en: Western Flycatcher
- de: Ufertyrann
- es: Papamoscas amarillo del Pacífico
- fr: Moucherolle obscur
- nl: Oeverfeetiran
- pl: Empidonka stokowa

## Countries with the most observations

US (10684), MX (1944), CA (1024)

## Summary

The western flycatcher (Empidonax difficilis) is a small insectivorous bird in the family Tyrannidae.  It is native to western North America, where it breeds in the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Coast forests and mountain ranges from California to Alaska and south to central Mexico; northern populations migrate south to Mexico for the winter.

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

## Photo

![Oeverfeetiran](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/western-flycatcher/medium.jpg)

Photo: Andy Kleinhesselink · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/153889545

## Machine access

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