Wildbird
HOME Bird name:

Loggerhead Kingbird

Tyrannus caudifasciatusOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Flycatchers (Tyrannidae)
Loggerhead Kingbird Breeding Male Portrait
  Splitbar
Range Map for Loggerhead Kingbird

Overview

Loggerhead Kingbird: Large flycatcher, olive-brown upperparts, dark head with inconspicuous yellow crown patch, white underparts, and pale yellow wash on lower belly. Wings are brown-black with white edges; tail is brown-black with buff-edged tip. Feeds on insects, berries and lizards.

Range and Habitat

Loggerhead Kingbird: Resident in northern Bahama Islands and Greater Antilles; rare vagrant to southern Florida. Inhabits open woodlands.

Splitbar

Listen:

Voice Text

"treeeerrp"

Splitbar
BEYOND THE BACKYARD...
800+ BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA
FORUMS - ID HELP - ARTICLES - FREE SOFTWARE - MUCH MORE
If you like the Project Wildbird ID Engine you may want to check out the WhatBird North America database - the gold standard of bird identification that Project Wildbird is based on.

Whatbird.com - a commercial web site - offers the same search capability for every bird in North America, including rare and vagrants, shorebirds, raptors, even extinct species. You'll find the same outstanding illustrations, bird calls, plus these features:

Browse Birds - view birds by location, shape, color, size, etc.

Bird Expert - guides you ID with simple questions

Forum - Visit our Identification Forum and get personal answers from our ornithologists David Lukas and Simone Whitecloud.

FORUMS - ID HELP - ARTICLES - FREE SOFTWARE - MUCH MORE

Related Birds:

Black Phoebe
Thick-billed Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird
Fork-tailed Flycatcher
Gray Kingbird
Rose-throated Becard
.

Copyright © 2005 WBFI Research Foundation Bird database and its related content and media is Copyright (C) 2002 - 2005 Mitch Waite Group All rights reserved.

Family Flycatcher (Tyrannidae)_blue
Species Tyrannus caudifasciatus
Length9 Inches
Wingspan15 Inches

Loggerhead Kingbird

Loggerhead Kingbird: Large flycatcher, olive-brown upperparts, dark head with inconspicuous yellow crown patch, white underparts, and pale yellow wash on lower belly. Wings are brown-black with white edges; tail is brown-black with buff-edged tip. Feeds on insects, berries and lizards.

● Song: "treeeerrp"

● Foraging & Feeding: Loggerhead Kingbird: Eats insects, berries, and lizards. Often sits quietly, sallying to catch flying insects and then returning to perch to eat.

● Breeding & nesting: Loggerhead Kingbird: Three to five creamy buff or pink eggs with brown and purple blotches are laid in a cup nest made of twigs, grass, stems, bark, and plant fibers, lined with plant down, moss, horsehair, and other plant materials, and built on a horizontal branch 8 to 25 feet above the ground. Incubation ranges from 15 to 16 days and is carried out by the female.

● Similar species: Loggerhead Kingbird: Western Kingbird is smaller, has much smaller bill, dark gray back, gray wash on breast, and black tail with wide, white terminal band.

Flight Pattern

Alternates several rapid shallow wing beats with short periods of wings pulled to sides.
Loggerhead Kingbird Breeding Male Body Illustration
● Range & Habitat: Loggerhead Kingbird: Resident in northern Bahama Islands and Greater Antilles; rare vagrant to southern Florida. Inhabits open woodlands.
BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester
PopulationCasual
MigrationNonmigratory
Weight1.5 Ounces