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Browse North American birds by shape—helpful if you don’t know exactly which type of bird you’ve seen.
A large, assertive flycatcher with rich reddish-brown accents and a lemon-yellow belly, the Great Crested Flycatcher is a common bird of Eastern woodlands.
This petite olive-and-yellow species often inhabits canyons or ravines with flowing water, where there are gaps in the canopy. Here, the species forages mostly by flying out to capture passing insects. In 2023, ornithologists lumped Pacific-slope and Cordilleran Flycatchers together as Western Flycatcher after treating them as separate species ...
In dense leafy forests of the east, the Great Crested Flycatcher lives within the canopy of tall trees in summer. It is more easily heard than seen, its rolling calls echoing through the woods.
flycatcher, any of a number of perching birds (order Passeriformes) that dart out to capture insects on the wing, particularly members of the Old World songbird family Muscicapidae and of the New World family Tyrannidae, which consists of the tyrant flycatchers.
The Old World flycatchers are a large family, the Muscicapidae, of small passerine birds restricted to the Old World ( Europe, Africa and Asia ), with the exception of several vagrants and two species, bluethroat ( Luscinia svecica) and northern wheatear ( Oenanthe oenanthe ), found also in North America.
Muscicapidae - Flycatchers. This family is united by its method of finding food. Flycatchers typically sit on a perch, usually an exposed twig and sally forth, capturing an insect in mid-air.
