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Bird name:

Nutting's Flycatcher

Myiarchus nuttingi

Order

PASSERIFORMES

Family

Flycatchers (Tyrannidae)

Code 4

NUFL

Code 6

MYINUT

ITIS

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Breeding Location:

Bushes, shrubs, and thickets



Breeding Type:

Monogamous, Solitary nester



Breeding Population:

Accidental in Arizona



Egg Color:

White, with red brown, purple and black marks



Number of Eggs:



Incubation Days:



Egg Incubator:

Female



Nest Material:

Grasses., Lined with weeds, hair, twigs, grasses, rootlets, and feathers.



Migration:

Nonmigratory



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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.

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Undertail covertsX
Small feathers that cover the areas where the retrices (tail feathers) attach to the rump.
UpperpartsX
Back, rump, hindneck, wings, and crown.
BellyX
The ventral part of the bird, or the area between the flanks on each side and the crissum and breast. Flight muscles are located between the belly and the breast.
BreastX
The upper front part of a bird.
CrownX
The crown is the top part of the birds head.
Parts of a Standing bird X
Head Feathers and Markings X
Parts of a Flying bird X