Loggerhead Kingbird

Loggerhead Kingbird

Loggerhead Kingbird: Large flycatcher, olive-brown upperparts, dark head with inconspicuous yellow crown patch, white underparts, and pale yellow wash on lower belly. Wings are brown-black with white edges; tail is brown-black with buff-edged tip. Feeds on insects, berries and lizards.

● Song: "treeeerrp"

● Foraging & Feeding: Loggerhead Kingbird: Eats insects, berries, and lizards. Often sits quietly, sallying to catch flying insects and then returning to perch to eat.

● Breeding & nesting: Loggerhead Kingbird: Three to five creamy buff or pink eggs with brown and purple blotches are laid in a cup nest made of twigs, grass, stems, bark, and plant fibers, lined with plant down, moss, horsehair, and other plant materials, and built on a horizontal branch 8 to 25 feet above the ground. Incubation ranges from 15 to 16 days and is carried out by the female.

● Similar species: Loggerhead Kingbird: Western Kingbird is smaller, has much smaller bill, dark gray back, gray wash on breast, and black tail with wide, white terminal band.

Flight Pattern