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 ...

Loud but elusive, the great crested flycatcher challenges birders with its treetop nesting, dramatic calls and quirky habits — making it a tricky but rewarding species to spot or photograph.

This flycatcher is famous for including a shedded snake skin into the construction of its nest. This prevalent tendency on the part of great crested flycatcher isn’t practiced as a whim.

A great crested flycatcher was singing from the treetops. As usual, I couldn’t see the bird. Inhabiting the uppermost layers of the dense summer canopy, the species’ whereabouts is usually ...

The great crested flycatcher is the largest and perhaps the most colorful of many species of flycatchers. A rusty red tail, white wing bars, and a lemon-yellow belly provide a striking splash of ...

The great crested flycatcher, for example, will sneak among the tree limbs, then suddenly launch to chomp down on butterflies, dragonflies, bees, wasps and other flying insects.

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 ...

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. Its habit of hunting high in the canopy ...

A female great crested flycatcher brings nesting materials. (Jim Williams/The Minnesota Star Tribune) Flycatchers are members of a big North American bird family, 21 species, many relatives.

And that’s the great crested flycatcher: a flying ruler with big hair. Great cresteds are often confused with western kingbirds on a quick look.

The migratory songbird named great crested flycatcher has arrived in Houston from its winter home south of the border.

The great crested flycatcher has a particularly loud collection of vocalizations that are so distinctive that they are virtually impossible to confuse with any other local bird.