All flycatchersare useful and should be carefully protected, says the same well-informed writer.
Suddenly the thought occurred to me that the flycatchers of my acquaintance do not nest on the ground, but on trees.
Abundant from Pennsylvania to Quebec, the least flycatchers are too inconspicuous to be much noticed.
Flycatchers are solitary, sedentary birds, never being found in flocks; but when mated, they are devoted home lovers.
In the now heavily leaved forests the returning Warblers and Flycatchers will not be so easily observed as they were in May, but in September they become too abundant to be overlooked.
The Phoebe is the best known member of a group of small Flycatchers which the beginner, and not infrequently the advanced student, names with more or less uncertainty.
He is a silent traveler and gives no clue to his identity by calling or singing, but his underparts are so much yellower than those of any other of our smallFlycatchers that they make a definite field character.
I saw an astonishing number of Flycatchers all on the same side of an orchard, and felt sure, from their restlessness, that they had assembled, as swallows do, in view of migration.
A yellow-bellied trogon came quite close, and sat as trogons do, very straight and stiff like a poorly mounted bird, watching passing flycatchers and me and the glimpses of sky.
With the exception of the Rhipidura, all these flycatchers had come down from the Himalayas.
The flycatchers were a pageant in themselves; there were more species in that tiny bagh than are to be found in the whole of Great Britain and Ireland.
Flycatchers darting at the same insect will now and then come together, but not hard enough to injure either bird.
The decaying wood of fallen trees is a paradise for ants, flies, and beetles; offering to swallows, creepers, and flycatchers feasts of abundance never dreamed of in the primitive forests.
These miniature flycatchers have a way of hunting which is all their own.
Hymenoptera are a standard diet with flycatchers and would seem to be the natural food of any bird that feeds upon the wing.
These insects are usually not eaten to any great extent except by flycatchers and swallows, which take their food upon the wing.
Nest: Great crested flycatchers use natural cavities or excavations made by other species.
Great crested flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus L 7" [Illustration] Habitat: Great crested flycatchersare common in deciduous and mixed woods east of the Rockies.
Nest: Western flycatcherssometimes nest in cavities, but use a variety of nest sites.
Food: Food habit studies have shown that great crested flycatchers eat 94 percent animal and 6 percent vegetable material.
Feeding niches of flycatchers in a montane forest in Colorado.
But, surely, may not the sight of snake-skins that first greet the eyes of the fledgling flycatchers as they emerge from the shell be a good and sufficient reason why the feathers on their little heads should stand on end?
This is the most yellow of the small flycatchers and the only Eastern species with a yellow instead of a white throat.
The short necks of the flycatchers make their heads appear large for their bodies, a peculiarity slightly emphasized in this member of the family.
The flycatchers are songless; they are found all over the United States.
Very common flycatchers are the Arcadian Flycatcher, the Wood Peewee and the Least Flycatcher: the latter being called the Least Flycatcher on account of its being the smallest in size.
Flycatchers are birds that feed exclusively on insects, which they catch on the wing.
The flycatchers proper do not object in the least; in this country of multitudinous insects there are more than enough for every kind of bird.
The other flycatchers commonly seen in the Eastern Himalayas are: 48.
In the spring paradiseflycatchers are very abundant.
The flycatchers seemed well suited to the sycamore; they were birds of large ideas and sweeping flights.
But Jenny seemed to have desired only one more stroke of revenge, and the flycatchers finally succeeded in raising their family in front of the home of Jenny Wren.
Certainly the flycatcher was still on guard, but the wrens went about their work and did not molest the flycatchers except at long intervals.
When they have a nest these flycatchers are very bold.
One or other of the Fantailed Flycatchers (58-60).
The Flycatchers, 55-60 Flycatchers are birds which feed exclusively on insects, which they catch upon the wing.
The thrushes feed mostly on and near the ground, while some of the vireos and the true flycatchers explore the highest branches.
The flycatchers always take their insect prey on the wing, by a sudden darting or swooping movement; often a very audible snap of the beak may be heard.
The red-eye is classed among the flycatchers by some writers, but is much more of a worm-eater, and has few of the traits or habits of the Muscicapa or the true Sylvia.
The flycatchers are a larger group than the vireos, with stronger-marked characteristics.
Silky Flycatchers (subfamily Ptilogonatinae) became modified to catch insects, and have specializations that roughly parallel those of the Tyrannid flycatchers.
When flycatchers have been on the croquet hoops and swallows were flying low, they had not seldom to get pretty sharply out of the way to avoid a collision, as the swallows appeared purposely to fly at them.
Spotted flycatchers have not been as common with us lately as they were at one time, when they always made their home here during their summer visit to this country, and were constantly in evidence.
For five years running a pair of flycatchers built in a fork of a thick ivy-stem on the old church tower.
Towards the end of July, 1902, we were much interested in a pair of flycatchers with their little family of three.
The myrtle warblers not only foraged about the bushes which served the flycatchers as watch-towers; but the two kinds of birds, so dissimilar in size and habits, changed their feeding grounds together.
While I sometimes found the warblers alone, I saw them in company with the fork-tailed flycatcherstoo often for the association to be looked upon as accidental.
I saw these bulbuls darting out after insects from branches, much as flycatchers would do, and have noticed a tendency toward flycatching in other bulbuls, but not so commonly as in this species.
Several small "brown" flycatchers which could not be assigned to species were observed at Quoin Hill and Kalabakan.
This species exhibits habits similar to those of theflycatchers and "may be considered as occupying an intermediate station between the flycatchers and warblers, having the manner of the former and the bill partially of the latter.
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