General
La Sagra's Flycatcher: Medium-sized flycatcher with gray-brown upperparts, slight crest, and white underparts with pale yellow wash on belly and undertail coverts. Wings have two white bars and contrasting dark brown primaries with rufous edging. Tail is long and dark with rufous edges on outer tail feathers. Sexes are similar.
Range and Habitat
La Sagra's Flycatcher: Caribbean native; casual to accidental in Florida, accidental in Alabama. Inhabits woodlands and forests where trees are large enough for nesting holes.
Breeding and Nesting
La Sagra's Flycatcher: Three to five white eggs marked with red brown, purple and black are laid in a natural cavity or abandoned woodpecker hole lined with grass, weeds, hair, feathers, and twigs. Incubation ranges from 12 to 14 days and is carried out by the female.
Foraging and Feeding
La Sagra's Flycatcher: Eats insects, fruits, and berries. Hawks flying insects beneath tree crowns.
Readily Eats
Meal Worms
Vocalization
La Sagra's Flycatcher: Song is a squeaky "wink, wink" given in two’s or three’s.
Similar Species
La Sagra's Flycatcher: Ash-throated Flycatcher is larger, has more rufous on tail, slightly brighter yellow belly, and different voice.