Knoxville resident Rebecca Boyd shared on Facebook on May 27 that she enjoyed seeing a new bird at her home. “Although the guide books say this is a common bird, The great crested flycatcher is ...

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 ...

It is from this sort of position that a great crested flycatcher will engage in a hunting strategy called “hawking.” This is a technique in which a bird will sit on an exposed perch and wait for ...

A large, assertive flycatcher with rich reddish-brown accents and a lemon-yellow belly, the Great Crested Flycatcher is a common bird of Eastern woodlands.

I believe the bird is a great crested flycatcher. This is the first time I’ve ever seen one of these birds in my yard. Are they rare around here? –Dave, Sandwich, MA. What a sad story ...

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.

The bird arrived in my neighborhood after migrating from wintering homes in northern South America, Central America or southern Mexico. Having seen the great crested flycatcher on wintering ...

The great crested flycatcher is probably singing at dawn in your neighborhood, too, as ...

Great crested flycatchers, our bird of the day, prefer open deciduous woodlands and edges of clearings, according to its account in the "Birds of North America" pamphlet series.

One species that has returned after being absent for many years, is the great crested flycatcher, one of my favorite birds. I suspect that clearing the horse trail opened up the oak woodlands just ...

On a recent hot afternoon, I heard a loud “wheep” note coming from the woods near my home. I scanned for the unseen caller but didn’t de-tect any bird in the canopy of the nearby trees. Of ...