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 ...

Unlike most of the other flycatchers, the crested flycatcher will quite readily use a nest box in which to raise a family. This flycatcher appreciates a deeper cavity than bluebirds and tree ...

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.

Great-crested flycatchers eat flies, but also many other kinds of flying insects, too, including moths, beetles and mosquitoes that they catch on the wing.

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 ...

A great crested flycatcher gathers nesting material of natural fibers and dog fur in a backyard in the Thoroughgood area of Virginia Beach. Courtesy of William Johnson Mike Weirich photographed an ...

Further complicating the location and photography of the great crested flycatcher is the species’ choice of nesting location. These guys, like many other species, look for old woodpecker nest ...

There are over 20 resident Florida birds that nest in cavities in trees or branches. These include Eastern Bluebird, Carolina Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, White-breasted Nuthatch, Great-crested ...

The great crested flycatcher places a shed snake skin in its nest and leaves it there until the young have fledged. Tufted titmice and blue grosbeaks will do the same on occasion.

The flycatcher is one of a number of birds that line their nests with shed snakeskin because, a new study reports, it scares off... Main image, a great-crested flycatcher.