Nutting's Flycatcher

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