Great Crested Flycatcher Photos

Photography by Terry Sohl

My Favorite: This inquisitive fellow was taken at Newton Hills State Park in South Dakota, on June 3rd, 2007. It's nice to get a good close look at these guys...they're so pretty with that lemon-yellow belly. You hear them much more often than you see them around here.


Great Crested Flycatcher 1	Great Crested Flycatcher 2	Great Crested Flycatcher 3	Great Crested Flycatcher 4
July 4th, 2006	July 4th, 2006	May 27th, 2007	May 27th, 2007
Big Sioux Recreation Area, South Dakota	Big Sioux Recreation Area, South Dakota	Beaver Creek Nature Area, South Dakota	Beaver Creek Nature Area, South Dakota
Bird perched on heavily fruiting eastern red cedar tree	Flycatcher posing on eastern red cedar (juniper) tree	Flycatcher vertical in the shade of the forest canopy	Flycatcher vertical in the shade of the forest canopy

Great Crested Flycatcher 5	Great Crested Flycatcher 6	Great Crested Flycatcher 7	Great Crested Flycatcher 8
June 3rd, 2007	June 3rd, 2007	May 27th, 2007	May 26th, 2011
Newton Hills State Park, South Dakota	Newton Hills State Park, South Dakota	Newton Hills State Park, South Dakota	Beaver Creek Nature Area, South Dakota
Profile of flycatcher foraging in tree branches	Flycatcher giving a nice pose on a tree branch	Great-crested flycatcher resting in the forest canopy	Head-on view of Great-crested Flycatcher on a barbed wire fence

Great Crested Flycatcher 9	Great Crested Flycatcher 10	Great Crested Flycatcher 11	Great Crested Flycatcher 12
May 26th, 2011	May 26th, 2011	May 26th, 2011	May 26th, 2011
Beaver Creek Nature Area, South Dakota	Beaver Creek Nature Area, South Dakota	Beaver Creek Nature Area, South Dakota	Beaver Creek Nature Area, South Dakota
Side view of flycatcher on barbed-wire fence	Rare view of Great Crested Flycatcher out in the open on grassland	Vertical shot of flycatcher posing on a fence line	Inquisitive looking bird posing on barbed-wire fence

Great Crested Flycatcher 13	Great Crested Flycatcher 14
May 16th, 2019	September 3rd, 2017
Good Earth State Park, South Dakota	Minnehaha County, South Dakota
Bird posing on a weed stem in open area next to forest edge	Flycatcher on an eastern red cedar (juniper)