The Flyer by Flying Colors

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Volume 36 • November 18, 2022

Welcome to 
🦜 The Flyer 🦜
by Flying Colors

Every other Friday, we share original content written by the Flying Colors team, fascinating stories & tidbits from the world of birding, curated products, epic bird photos, and more.

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Bird of the Week: The Yellow-Bellied Flycatcher

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

Photo by Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren (Flickr)

Found in North America

Listen Hear Their Calls

The Yellow-Bellied Flycatcher is one shady bird…because it loves to be in the shade. They thrive in the wet forests of Canada, and in soggy bogs. You can find these Flycatchers stoically perched on tree branches looking for nearby prey, then quickly snatching insects out of the air—or their own webs. If you’re arachnophobic, these birds are great to have around: they love to feast on spiders.

These tiny birds have more of an olive overall coloring, with two telltale white stripes on their wings, a pointed beak, and a sunny belly that varies in brightness. They hide their nests in dense, mossy spots near ground level that do a great job of concealing the 3-5 eggs within. 

Fun fact: Male Yellow-Bellied Flycatchers defend their territory by staking out a visible perch and singing, alerting any visitors of their claim.

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

Photo by Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren (Flickr)

Give a Hoot

Birding bits you should know about this week

Give a Hoot

Photo by Murray Foubister (Flickr)

🦅 Celebrate
Watch this baby Bald Eagle get rescued after its mom accidentally kicked it out of the nest.

👀 Get inspired
This 13-year-old birder has spotted 210 species this year.
Missouri’s Zita Robertson was named the Young Birder of the Year by the American Birding Association. And her spark bird was a chicken!

❄️ Learn
Where is that bird going with that seed? It’s caching food for later.
Birds are busy preparing for the long winter ahead.

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Wood Duck

Gray on gray post, this silent little bird

Swoops on its prey—prey neither seen nor heard!

A click of bill; a flicker; and, back again!

Sighs Nature an Alas? Or merely, Amen?

— “The Spotted Flycatcher” by Walter de la Mare

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Flying Colors makes premium organic wild bird food, offering ethically sourced, toxin-free seeds and nuts of the highest quality to nourish wild birds of all types and inspire birders of all ages. Each specialty blend and single origin creation is rigorously sourced & researched, and every jar is produced with love & packaged by hand in small batches in New York's Hudson Valley and tested in our own backyards.

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