Nutting's Flycatcher - Steve Collins
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Location

Big Bend NP--Santa Elena Canyon (FWTX 39)
Brewster, Texas, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist
Map
Map Coordinates: 29.1668521, -103.6106873
Age
Not specified
Sex
Not specified

Observation details

Continuing rarity. Present from 2:03 - 2:53pm today, though not seen all morning or yesterday afternoon after 2pm. Small Myiarchus flycatcher with a rufous undertail that reached the tip and brown on the sides of the tail. The rufous primaries went to yellow secondaries before white secondaries unlike other Myiarchus, which don't show yellow secondaries. The base of the mandible was pinkish. Fairly bright yellow on belly with a fairly strong contrast to a gray breast - reminding one of a Great Crested, though not quite as bright and much more diminutive. The bird was silent during most of this period. It made one call note that slurred upward. Just before it disappeared, it made a series of calls that have been recorded previously and support Nutting's. Many photos are available.

Technical information

Model
Canon EOS 40D
ISO
400
Focal length
400 mm
Flash
Flash did not fire, auto
f-stop
f/5.6
Shutter speed
1/640 sec
Dimensions
1024 pixels x 791 pixels
Original file size
152 KB