General

Nutting's Flycatcher: Medium-sized flycatcher with olive-brown upperparts, yellow belly and undertail coverts, darker olive-brown crown, brown tail and wings, and pale gray throat and breast. Sexes are similar.

Range and Habitat

Nutting's Flycatcher: Native of Mexico; accidental in southeastern Arizona. Frequents interiors and edges of deciduous woodlots; also occurs in second-growth, from low to middle levels.

Breeding and Nesting

Nutting's Flycatcher: Three to five white eggs marked with red brown, purple, and black are laid in a nest made of grass, lined with weeds, hair, grass, twigs, rootlets, and feathers, and built 1 to 20 feet above the ground in a tree, post, or woodpecker hole. Eggs are incubated for 14 days by the female.

Foraging and Feeding

Nutting's Flycatcher: Eats insects and berries. Forages by sallying and hovering within foliage to catch insects; less often hawks insects in flight.

Readily Eats

Meal Worms

Vocalization

Nutting's Flycatcher: Song is a sharp, chattering "wheep, wheep" or "wheek, wheek." Call is a repetitious "ki, di-di-dir."

Similar Species

Nutting's Flycatcher: Ash-throated Flycatcher is gray-brown overall, has paler yellow belly, pale gray throat and breast, and different voice.