page_title: List of birds of North Carolina
section_title: Tyrant flycatchers
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of North Carolina / Tyrant flycatchers
caption_attribution_description: Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus. Hillman Marsh (near Point Pelee), Canada
context_page_description: This list of birds of North Carolina includes species documented in the U.S. state of North Carolina and accepted by the North Carolina Bird Records Committee of the Carolina Bird Club. As of January 2019, there are 469 species and a species pair definitively included in the official list. Twelve additional species, one of which is identified only at the genus level, are on the list but classed as provisional. Between January 2019 and July 2020, four more species were reported to eBird. Of the resulting 486 species, 89 are rare anywhere in the state, 92 are rare in some part of the state or in a single season, six have been introduced to North America, and four are extinct.
  This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds, 7th edition through the 61st Supplement, published by the American Ornithological Society. Common and scientific names are also those of the Check-list, except that the common names of families are from the Clements taxonomy because the AOS list does not include them.
context_section_description: Order: Passeriformes   Family: Tyrannidae
  Tyrant flycatchers are passerine birds which occur throughout North and South America. They superficially resemble the Old World flycatchers, but are more robust and have stronger bills. They do not have the sophisticated vocal capabilities of the songbirds. Most, but not all, are rather plain. As the name implies, most are insectivorous. Nineteen species and a species pair have been recorded in North Carolina.
  Ash-throated flycatcher, Myiarchus cinerascens (RI)
  Great crested flycatcher, Myiarchus crinitus
  Tropical kingbird, Tyrannus melancholicus (R)
  Western kingbird, Tyrannus verticalis
  Eastern kingbird, Tyrannus tyrannus
  Gray kingbird, Tyrannus dominicensis (RM)
  Scissor-tailed flycatcher, Tyrannus forficatus
  Fork-tailed flycatcher, Tyrannus savana (R)
  Olive-sided flycatcher, Contopus cooperi
  Eastern wood-pewee, Contopus virens
  Yellow-bellied flycatcher, Empidonax flaviventris
  Acadian flycatcher, Empidonax virescens
  Alder flycatcher, Empidonax alnorum
  Willow flycatcher, Empidonax traillii
  Least flycatcher, Empidonax minimus
  Gray flycatcher, Empidonax wrightii (R)
  Pacific-slope flycatcher/cordilleran flycatcher, Empidonax difficilis/Empidonax occidentalis (R)
  Eastern phoebe, Sayornis phoebe
  Say's phoebe, Sayornis saya (RI)
  Vermilion flycatcher, Pyrocephalus rubinus (R)
caption: Least flycatcher
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