Cassin's Kingbird
The Cassin's Kingbird is similar to the Western Kingbird but darker, its back is more olive-gray and its black tail is lightly white-tipped but lacking white margins. The darker gray breast makes the white throat patch appear smaller and more clearly defined than Western Kingbird's. The Cassin's Kingbird is often found high on a tree where it sits more quietly than the Western Kingbird. The song of the Cassin's Kingbird is loud chi-beer! and a rapid chi-beer, ch-beer-beer-beer-r-r.

The Cassin's Kingbird primarily eats insects, but also spiders and fleshy fruits. It usually nests in fairly tall trees such as pine, oak, cottonwood, walnut, hackberry or sycamore and places its nest near the end of a horizontal limb 8 to 40 feet, but up to 100 feet, above the ground. It also places its nests in bushes and on posts.

The Cassin's Kingbird breeds in southern California and from Montana south to southern Utah and Southwest and winters in southern California. It prefers savannas, rangelands and pinyon-juniper woodlands.
Cassin's Kingbird Range Map

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