Nutting's Flycatcher

Myiarchus nuttingiOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Flycatchers (Tyrannidae)

General

Nutting's Flycatcher: Medium-sized flycatcher with olive-brown upperparts, yellow belly and undertail coverts, darker olive-brown crown, brown tail and wings, and pale gray throat and breast. Sexes are similar.

Range and Habitat

Nutting's Flycatcher: Native of Mexico; accidental in southeastern Arizona. Frequents interiors and edges of deciduous woodlots; also occurs in second-growth, from low to middle levels.

Listen to Call

Voice Text

"wheep, wheep", "wheek, wheek", "ki, di-di-dir"

Interesting Facts

The Nutting's Flycatcher was named after zoologist Charles Cleveland Nutting.

It is separated from other confusingly similar Myiarchus species by its call, a sharp weeep.

It is almost identical in appearance to the Ash-throated Flycatcher and is distinguishable in the field only by song.

A group of flycatchers has many collective nouns, including an "outfield", "swatting", "zapper", and "zipper" of flycatchers.

Author

Gary Owen Dick

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Nutting's Flycatcher

Nutting's Flycatcher: Medium flycatcher with olive-brown upperparts, yellow belly and undertail coverts, darker olive-brown crown, brown tail and wings, and pale gray throat, breast. Feeds on insects and berries. Strong flight on rapidly beating wings. Hovers and dips to pick up prey.

● Song: "wheep, wheep", "wheek, wheek", "ki, di-di-dir"

● Foraging & Feeding: Nutting's Flycatcher: Eats insects and berries. Forages by sallying and hovering within foliage to catch insects; less often hawks insects in flight.

● Breeding & nesting: Nutting's Flycatcher: Three to five white eggs marked with red brown, purple, and black are laid in a nest made of grass, lined with weeds, hair, grass, twigs, rootlets, and feathers, and built 1 to 20 feet above the ground in a tree, post, or woodpecker hole. Eggs are incubated for 14 days by the female.

● Similar species: Nutting's Flycatcher: Ash-throated Flycatcher is gray-brown overall, has paler yellow belly, pale gray throat and breast, and different voice.

Flight Pattern

Fairly strong flight on rapidly beating wings. Hovers and dips to pick up prey, may hawk in flight and return to perch.

Nutting's Flycatcher Breeding Male Body Illustration

● Range & Habitat: Nutting's Flycatcher: Native of Mexico; accidental in southeastern Arizona. Frequents interiors and edges of deciduous woodlots; also occurs in second-growth, from low to middle levels.

^BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester

^PopulationAccidental in Arizona

^MigrationNonmigratory

^Weight0.8 Ounces

Field Guide to Birds of North America