Great Crested Flycatcher Images

Great Crested Flycatcher Images, Facts and Information:

Myiarchus crinitus

• Great Crested Flycatchers are large flycatchers with a gray-brown head, olive-green upperparts, and a bright lemon-yellow belly. They have a bushy crest on their head that they can raise and lower. Their bill is heavy and black, and they have a distinctive call that sounds like “wheep”.
  
• Great Crested Flycatchers are migratory. The range of Great Crested Flycatchers is from the eastern United States to Central America. They are found in canopy of open woods.
• Great Crested Flycatchers eat insects, including beetles, bees, wasps, butterflies, moths, grasshoppers, and caterpillars. They also eat spiders and occasionally fruit.
  
• Great Crested Flycatchers lay 4 to 8 eggs which take 13 to 15 days to hatch. The females incubate and they are monogamous.
  
• A group of flycatchers can be called a “swatting”, “zapper”, “zipper” or and “outfield” of flycatchers.
• Great Crested Flycatchers can live up to 10 years.

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