The buff-breasted flycatcher was a bird we found at a high elevation, well over 6,000 feet, in Miller Canyon in the Huachuca Mountains of southeastern Arizona. My guide, Jake Thompson, spent quite a bit of time whistling for it and brought it in. Birds of the World notes that it is known as "a rare 'southeastern Arizona specialty,'...[but it] occurs quite widely south of the United States in Mexico and Central America." There are only about 20 to 40 individual birds known in the U.S. on an annual basis.
In Arizona it is found between 6,400 and 9,400 feet in elevation. It is considered uncommon and very local in Arizona.
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| Illustration from Birds of the World. |
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| Note the very small sliver of range in Arizona. |






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