Great Crested Flycatcher

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iGreat Crested Flycatcher
Conservation status
Least Concern (LC)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Tyrannidae Genus: Myiarchus Species: M. crinitus
Binomial name
Myiarchus crinitus (Linnaeus, 1758)

The Great Crested Flycatcher, Myiarchus crinitus, is a large insect-eating bird of the tyrant flycatcher family.

Adults are brownish on the upperparts with yellow underparts; they have a long rusty brown tail and a bushy crest. Their throat and breast are grey.

Their breeding habitat is deciduous or mixed forests across eastern North America. They nest in a cavity in a tree. A snake skin is usually included in the lining of the nest; sometimes a plastic wrapper is substituted.

These birds migrate to Mexico and South America, also Florida and Cuba.

They wait on a high perch and fly out to catch insects in flight, sometimes hovering to pick food off vegetation. They also eat fruits and berries.

This bird's call is a whistled weep.

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[edit] References

• BirdLife International (2004). Myiarchus crinitus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 12 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern|Flycatcher, Great Crested]]