The Status and Occurrence of Ash-throated Flycatcher (Myiarchus cinerascens) in British Columbia.
by Rick Toochin and Jamie Fenneman
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Introduction and Distribution:
The Ash-throated Flycatcher (Myiarchus cinerascens) breeds from California north throughout eastern and southwestern Oregon and north into areas of central Washington along the eastern slopes of the Cascade Range north to Wenatchee (Wahl et al. 2005). It also breeds from southern Idaho, throughout Nevada, Utah, parts of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, southern Oklahoma and east to central Texas, as well as throughout northern and central Mexico (Sibley 2000, Dunn and Alderfer 2011). It winters in the southwestern United States in southern California and Arizona, as well as from Florida through the Gulf States to south coastal Texas south throughout western Mexico and the Pacific slope of northern Central America, south to Nicaragua, as well as along the coast of eastern Mexico (e.g., Tamaulipas, Veracruz) (Dunn and Alderfer 2011, Howell and Webb 2010).
The Ash-throated Flycatcher is rare in Costa Rica (Howell and Webb 2010). It is a rare but regular vagrant to western Washington from both coastal locations and those on the western side of the Cascade Mountains (Wahl et al. 2005). In British Columbia, it is a rare to annual species that occurs in BC in small numbers each year, with over 80 records occurring throughout the spring to fall period (Toochin et al. 2013, see Table 1). There is a good single observer sight record for Alaska from Juneau in July 1999 (West 2008).
