Breeding Location:
Bushes, shrubs, and thickets, Marshes, freshwater, Swamps
Breeding Type:
Monogamous
Breeding Population:
Fairly common
Egg Color:
White to pale buff with brown spots
Number of Eggs:
2 - 4
Incubation Days:
12 - 15
Egg Incubator:
Female
Nest Material:
Bark, grass, rootlets, and bits of plant.
Migration:
Migratory
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Overview
Willow Flycatcher: Small flycatcher, brown-olive upperparts, white throat contrasting with paler breast, white to pale yellow belly. Head has darker cap, faint white eye rings. Dark wings with two white bars. Feeds on insects, spiders, berries. Weak fluttering flight with shallow rapid wing beats.
Range and Habitat
Willow Flycatcher: Breeds from southern British Columbia, Alberta, North Dakota, New York, and Maine south to central California, Nevada, the southwest, Arkansas, and Virginia. Spends winters in the tropics. Preferred habitats include swampy thickets, upland pastures, and old abandoned orchards; also occurs along wooded lakeshores and streams.
Breeding and Nesting
Willow Flycatcher: Two to four brown spotted, white to pale buff eggs are laid in a neat, compact cup of plant down and fibers built in a low bush or sapling. Incubation ranges from 12 to 15 days and is carried out by the female.
Foraging and Feeding
Willow Flycatcher: Feeds on insects; forages in flight, sometimes picking insects from foliage.
Readily Eats
Meal Worms
Vocalization
Willow Flycatcher: Call is a wheezy "fitz-bew" or "pit-speer." Song is a burry "fee-bee-o", descending more abruptly in pitch.
Similar Species
Willow Flycatcher: Alder Flycatcher has a shorter bill, more prominent eye-ring, and less brown on upperparts.
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