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Great Crested Flycatcher

The Great Crested Flycatcher’s latin name is Myiarchus crinitus. The Great Crested Flycatcher range is all over North America. Their preferred habitat is deciduous forests, forest edges, clearings, and woodlands. Great Crested Flycatcher’s breed from May through July. The Great Crested Flycatcher migration patterns take them to southern areas in the winter. Their population status is of least concern.

The Great Crested Flycatcher bird can be found at Coal Creek Farm throughout spring and summer. Their diet consists of mostly insects, including caterpillars, moths, butterflies, beetles, spiders, lizards, and fruits and berries. The Great Crested Flycatcher call is the same for both males and females. It consists of four basic daytime calls. The most characteristic and frequent call is a loud, penetrating whee-eep whistle that rises quickly and ends abruptly. The male Great Crested Flycatcher song is a three-part dawn song: two short, sweeping whistles and a low burry vibrato. They spend most of their time in treetops. A Great Crested Flycatcher nest contains shed snakeskin and other crinkly materials.

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