Great Crested Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher: Large, crested flycatcher with olive-green upperparts. Head, throat, and upper breast are gray, belly is yellow, and undertail coverts are lemon-yellow. Bill is heavy and black. Wings are dark with rufous patches. Tail is rufous. Swift bouyant direct flight.
● Song:
"wheep!", "prrrrrrrrrreeeet", "wheeep"
● Foraging & Feeding:
Great Crested Flycatcher: Eats variety of large insects, including beetles, crickets, katydids, caterpillars, moths, and butterflies; also eats fruits and berries; forages by flying from a perch to snatch insects from foliage, mid-air, or on the ground.
● Breeding & nesting:
Great Crested Flycatcher: Four to eight white to buff eggs marked with brown, olive, and lavender are laid in a nest filled and lined with grass, weeds, bark strips, rootlets, feathers, fur, snake skin, onion skin, and cellophane. Nest is usually built in a cavity, abandoned hole of another bird, or bird box.
● Similar species:
Great Crested Flycatcher: Ash-throated Flycatcher has smaller bill, white throat, and pale gray breast.
Flight Pattern
Fairly swift buoyant direct flight., Hawks insects in flight, returning to perch., Hovers over foliage or ground then dips for food.