Hammond's Flycatcher

I was recently in the San Gabriel Mountains above Los Angeles, near Buckhorn Campground, and photographed my first Hammond's flycatcher. It is an aerial forager, capturing most of its insect diet on the wing. Breeding birds prefer old growth forests of more than 25 acres and a minimum age of 80 to 90 years. 

The upperparts are grayish-olive; the sides of the breast and upper breast are dark gray; it has a whitish eye-ring, often thicker behind the eye; wing bars are narrow and whitish in adults; the upper mandible is blackish, the lower mandible is one-half to two-thirds dark and yellowish at the base; the legs are blackish. 

Hammond's flycatcher illustration from Birds of the World.

It winters in the highlands of Mexico and Central America in cool forested regions. In the range map, below, orange is breeding, yellow is migration and blue is non-breeding or wintering. 

Range map from Birds of the World.