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Great Kiskadee

Pitangus sulphuratus

Description:

Photo take near home in a dirt road this one is having breckfast whit some fruits, The head is black with a strong white eyestripe and a concealed yellow crown stripe. The upperparts are brown, and the wings and tail are brown with usually strong rufous fringes.They can measure from 21 to 27 cm in length and weigh 52 to 68 g.The Great Kiskadee is a common, noisy and conspicuous bird. It is almost omnivorous, and hunts like a shrike or flycatcher, waiting on an open perch high in a tree to sally out to catch insects in flight, or to pounce upon rodents and similar small vertebrates. Wikipedia.

Habitat:

Texas and northern Mexico south to Uruguay, Paraguay and central Argentina, and on Trinidad. It was introduced to Bermuda

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2 Comments

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 11 years ago

Sweet spotting...

NuwanChathuranga
NuwanChathuranga 11 years ago

great spotting !

Gerardo Aizpuru
Spotted by
Gerardo Aizpuru

Mexico

Spotted on Oct 7, 2012
Submitted on Oct 7, 2012

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