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GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER-1595-0645

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Tyler State Park, Newtown, PA, USA

 

Great Crested Flycatchers are reddish-brown above, with a brownish-gray head, gray throat and breast, and bright lemon-yellow belly. The brown upperparts are highlighted by rufous-orange flashes in the primaries and in the tail feathers. The black bill sometimes shows a bit of pale color at the base.

Great Crested Flycatchers are sit-and-wait predators, flying from high perches (usually near the tops of trees) after large insects, returning to the same or a nearby perch. Their clear, rising reep calls are a very common sound in summer.

 

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Nikon Z9 camera with Nikon 500mm f 5.6 E PF lens.

1/250 F5.6 ISO 500, with fill flash

 

“Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:”

Psalm 139:23

 

 

 

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