Western Flycatcher

Empidonax difficilis

Western Flycatcher photographed by Mark Curtis
Thousand Oaks · April 23, 2026

When to look

Reported most in June, across 947K open records.

Records by month. January, 7,212 records. February, 5,680 records. March, 19,449 records. April, 98,680 records. May, 228,559 records. June, 233,787 records. July, 172,975 records. August, 75,469 records. September, 76,625 records. October, 17,806 records. November, 4,916 records. December, 6,019 records.

Occurrence data from GBIF (incl. the eBird Observation Dataset, © Cornell Lab of Ornithology, CC BY 4.0). Descriptive, not predictive.

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