High in the canopy of eastern forests, great crested flycatchers (Myiarchus crinitus) swoop out from their perches, snagging flying insects from the air and plucking them from twigs and leaves. These ...

Great crested flycatchers will probably look for the nests of northern flickers, red-bellied woodpeckers and even hairy woodpeckers that are located 30 to 50 feet off the ground. These sorts of ...

On a cloudy day, after spending days, hours, weeks in my Thinking Chair, an adult great crested flycatcher just happened to perch on a dead branch where I could actually see it.

Great crested flycatchers are primarily insect eaters, and almost all insectivorous birds are dropping in population due to heavy use of insecticides in gardens, lawns and on food crops.

Great Crested Flycatcher have migrated into the area. They will raise young and then return to wintering grounds in northern South America, Central America, or southern Mexico.

The great crested flycatcher places a shed snake skin in its nest and leaves it there until the young have fledged. Tufted titmice and blue grosbeaks will do the same on occasion.

Main image, a great-crested flycatcher. Inset, a snake bares its fangs. The flycatcher is one of a number of birds that line their nests with shed snakeskin because, a new study reports, it scares ...

The great crested flycatcher only stayed a minute before flying into the tree canopy of the front yard. As I watched it fly off I saw orange color on a tree that I hadn’t noticed before.

Local species that would fall into this group include the great-crested flycatcher (Myiarchus crinitus), which I would characterize as permanently perturbed and the eastern phoebe (Sayornis phoebe), ...