Nutting's Flycatcher

Myiarchus nuttingiOrder: PASSERIFORMES Family: Flycatchers (Tyrannidae)

Codes: Common Name: NUFL Scientific Name: MYINUT ITIS Taxonomic No.: 178323

Head

Topo Map: Perching-like Head

Bill Shape: All-purpose
Eye Color: Dark brown.
Head Pattern: Plain
Crown Color: Olive-brown
Forehead Color: Olive-brown
Nape Color: Olive-brown
Throat Color: Pale Gray
Cere color: No Data

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Body

Topo Map: Perching-like Body

Length Range: 18-19 cm (7-7.5 in)
Weight: 23 g (0.8 oz)
Size: Size 2. Small (5 - 9 in)
Color: Brown, Gray, Yellow, Olive
Underparts: Yellow with pale gray breast.
Upperparts: Black
Back Pattern: Solid
Belly Pattern: Solid
Breast Pattern: Solid

Flight

Topo Map: Perching-like Flight

Flight Pattern: Fairly strong flight on rapidly beating wings. Hovers and dips to pick up prey, may hawk in flight and return to perch.
Wingspan Range: 30 cm (12 in)
Wing Shape: Pointed-Wings
Tail Shape: Forked Tail
Tail Pattern: Solid
Upper Tail: Dark olive-brown
Under Tail: Pale red-brown and brown.
Leg Color: Black

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Nutting's Flycatcher

Nutting's Flycatcher: Medium flycatcher with olive-brown upperparts, yellow belly and undertail coverts, darker olive-brown crown, brown tail and wings, and pale gray throat, breast. Feeds on insects and berries. Strong flight on rapidly beating wings. Hovers and dips to pick up prey.

● Song: "wheep, wheep", "wheek, wheek", "ki, di-di-dir"

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

● Breeding & 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.

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

Flight Pattern

Fairly strong flight on rapidly beating wings. Hovers and dips to pick up prey, may hawk in flight and return to perch.

● Range & 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.

^BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester

^PopulationAccidental in Arizona

^MigrationNonmigratory

^Weight0.8 Ounces

Perching-like Head

Perching-like Body

Perching-like Flight

4 and 6 letter alpha codes

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus) and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante (2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42 (Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

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