Eastern Kingbird
The Eastern Kingbird has a blackish head, blue-black mantle and wings, black tail with a white terminal band and is white below. The red feathers in the middle of its crown are usually concealed. The long crown feathers and upright posture give it a distinctive silhouette. The song of the Eastern Kingbird is a sharp dzee or dzeet.

The Eastern Kingbird consumes over 200 kinds of insects and more than 40 kinds of fruits, catching most insects by hawking from a perch. It often builds its nest over water on a tree limb well away from the main trunk, occasionally in shrubs or on an artificial structure, locating the nest 10 to 20 feet, but sometimes 2 to 60 feet, above the ground. It builds this nest in the crotch of a tree, on top of a dead stub or on a fence post if no trees are available. In New England, it frequently nests in the upper horizontal limbs of apple trees.

The Eastern Kingbird breeds from British Columbia across interior Canada to Maritime Provinces and south to northern California, central Texas, Gulf Coast and Florida and winters in the tropics. It prefers savannas, rangelands, forest edges, riverside groves, city parks and roadsides.
Eastern Kingbird Range Map

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