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	RonAusting.com Wildlife Photography
		The kingbird is so named because of its brilliant orange crown patch which, although it is always emphasized in artist's renditions, is almost never visible in the field because it lies concealed beneath the fl head feathers.
		The kingbird's outstanding characteristic is its behavior, which is audacious, defiant and fearless in the defense of its territory.
		Kingbirds are almost always observed in open habitats such as savannas rangelands and riverside groves and are seldom seen in deep woods.
	www.ronausting.com /birds/ekingbird.html (466 words)

	Tropical, Couch's, and Western comparisons
		This is a Tropical Kingbird specimen from Brazil.
		This is an adult Western Kingbird, showing that the white encompasses the entire outer vane of the outermost tail feather.
		I found that most Western Kingbirds had white only on the outer vane of their outermost tail feather (r6), but than perhaps a third had some white at the base of the inner vane of r6.
	www.birds.cornell.edu /crows/kingbirdsX.htm (1161 words)

	Birds, Familiar: Eastern Kingbird, Life Histories of North American Birds, A.C. Bent
		Of eccentric situations where kingbirds have nested, we may note two instances in which a nest was built on the reflector of an electric street light--A. Gardner (1921) and Rolf D. Rohwer (1933)--and a very remarkable report of its nesting in a rain gauge, Lincoln Ellison (1936).
		Kingbirds are averse to having another pair of kingbirds nest near them, but they do not object to nesting near other species of birds.
		Of the two flycatchers that resemble the eastern kingbird in general appearance, the gray kingbird and the Arkansas kingbird, the former has no white in its gray tail, and the latter has the tail margined with white and has a.
	home.bluemarble.net /~pqn/ch71-80/kingbird.html (6302 words)

	Western Kingbird
		The Western Kingbird is found on almost every ranch in the West, where alfalfa and livestock pastures provide many of the flying insects that make up the bulk of its diet.
		The Western Kingbird is distinguished by the white feathers on the sides of its fl tail.
		The Western Kingbird flycatches from a perch on poles, fence posts or tree tops in open areas for a variety of insects.
	www.shawcreekbirdsupply.com /western_kingbird_info.htm (262 words)

	ABOUT KINGBIRD TOURS
		KingBird Tours exists to provide birding tours that cater to those whose main interest is to see as many of the birds as possible in the area covered.
		KingBird Tours can be tiring in the sense that there is no letup to the birding, the days can be long and it is often necessary to drive long distances to get to the birds.
		KingBird Tours' vast experience running birding tours in Asia assures you of a superb birding experience.
	www.kingbirdtours.com /aboutkbt.html (1221 words)

	EASTERN KINGBIRD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The kingbird is noted for its courage and pugnacity in attacking birds much larger than itself.
		A member of the flycatcher family, the eight inch kingbird has a slate-colored back shading to a lighter gray beneath.
		Kingbirds are workers which always perch on dead limbs, tree tops, fence posts and other open spots where they launch forth to catch insects.
	www.baylink.org /wpc/kingbird.html (217 words)

	www.mrnussbaum.com - Eastern Kingbird
		The Eastern Kingbird also has a red patch of feathers on its head that may be displayed when the bird is agitated.
		Kingbirds usually occur in small flocks, where they catch insects in mid-air before returning to their original perch.
		Kingbirds are extremely aggressive to predators, and will noisily mob hawks and other large birds that venture too close to their nesting grounds.
	www.mrnussbaum.com /kingbird.htm (199 words)

	Gray Kingbird Species Account - Florida Breeding Bird Atlas
		In its habits the Gray Kingbird is a typical flycatcher.
		Gray Kingbirds breed from coastal Georgia and Florida, west to Mississippi, and throughout the West Indies and Caribbean.
		The breeding biology of the Gray Kingbird is poorly understood.
	myfwc.com /bba/grki.htm (462 words)

	93.1 FM - WKRO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The name Kingbird has been floating over the air waves in Daytona Beach for over 35 years- most of that time as morning personality- for the past six years the Kingbird voice has been heard on 93.1, the KRO.
		Kingbird was nominated for the Country Music Association Personality of the Year in 1995.
		Kingbird and precious have one daughter, Angela, who lives in East Tennessee and with grandson, Kyler James, born 12/26/97.
	www.wkro.fm /pagetemplate1.cfm?id=7 (216 words)

	NPWRC :: Eastern Kingbird
		Eastern kingbirds recorded in open habitats such as agricultural crop fields were probably encountered while the birds were foraging, because no substrate suitable for nest placement exists in those habitats.
		Graber and Graber (1963) observed a 65% reduction in the eastern kingbird population nesting in Illinois during 1909 to 1958.
		Rising (1974) reported that the majority of eastern kingbird nests in western Kansas are placed in cottonwood and willow trees.
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/birds/platte/species/tyratyra.htm (552 words)

	Cassin's Kingbird
		The Cassin's Kingbird is similar to the Western Kingbird but darker, its back is more olive-gray and its fl tail is lightly white-tipped but lacking white margins.
		The Cassin's Kingbird is often found high on a tree where it sits more quietly than the Western Kingbird.
		The Cassin's Kingbird breeds in southern California and from Montana south to southern Utah and Southwest and winters in southern California.
	www.shawcreekbirdsupply.com /cassins_kingbird_info.htm (155 words)

	NPWRC :: Western Kingbird
		Western kingbird ranked 10th in total abundance among nesting species, making up 3.3% of the total bird numbers, and was the most numerous Tyrannid present.
		Rising (1974) found that western kingbird was the most common tyrannid in western Kansas, where it nests in isolated trees or at the edge of woodlands.
		Effect of Habitat Alteration: Western kingbird has benefited significantly from the conversion of native grassland and wet meadow habitats to artificial habitats such as shelterbelts and ornamental plantings in residential areas.
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/birds/platte/species/tyravert.htm (378 words)

	Tropical Kingbird - Tyrannus melancholicus - Tyran mélancolique
		Tropical Kingbird - Tyrannus melancholicus - Tyran mélancolique
		Habitat : Tropical Kingbird is found in lowlands near water, in open country with scattered trees and also in urban areas.
		Tropical Kingbird may perform aggressive behaviour while defending its territory, with erected crown feathers, and uttering a harsh series of twitters.
	www.oiseaux.net /oiseaux/passeriformes/tropical.kingbird.html (702 words)

	NYSOA - Kingbird - Probable Couch's Kingbird X Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
		It was a gray-headed, yellow-bellied kingbird with a dark tail and white edges to the outer tail feathers.
		Western Kingbirds have a dusky gray chest and throat that contrasts slightly with the whiter chin and malar region.
		In Western Kingbird, primaries 10 (the outermost), 9, 8, and 7 are much longer than 6, which is much longer than 5; 10 is long, about the same as 7-9; 5 is short, barely longer than 4.
	www.nybirds.org /Publications/KB54no1_FlycHybrid.htm (4789 words)

	All About Birds
		The Eastern Kingbird is highly aggressive toward nest predators and larger birds.
		A kingbird was observed to knock a Blue Jay out of a tree and cause it to hide under bush to escape the attack.
		During the summer the Eastern Kingbird eats mostly flying insects and maintains a breeding territory that it defends vigorously against all other kingbirds.
	www.birds.cornell.edu /programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Eastern_Kingbird.html (246 words)

	Kingbird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The second Kingbird (MSC-194) was launched 21 May 1954 by the Quincy Adams Yacht Yard Inc., Quincy, Mass.; sponsored by Mrs.
		After shakedown, Kingbird arrived Charleston, S.C., for minesweep training and for the entire year she perfected methods of detecting and destroying mines.
		From 1956 through 1964 Kingbird engaged in minesweeping exercises along the Atlantic coast from Nova Scotia to the Canal Zone in the Caribbean.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/k4/kingbird-ii.htm (141 words)

	Kingbird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Following assignment to Portsmouth, N.H., in January 1942, Kingbird operated in the 1st Naval District as a coastal minesweeper for over 2 years.
		She was reclassified IX-176 10 July 1944 and placed out of service 28 July 1944 for use in training sound operators for new submarines.
		Kingbird, was transferred to the WSA 7 June 1946 for disposal.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/k4/kingbird-i.htm (114 words)

	Birds: The Arkansas Kingbird
		This bird is often confounded with the Flycatchers, and for a very good reason, its habits being similar to those of that family.
		Col. Goss, in his history of the birds of Kansas, one of the most comprehensive and valuable books ever published on ornithology, says that the nesting places and eggs of this species are essentially the same as those of the Kingbird.
		The next moment the two birds, the Kingbird on the Woodpecker’s back, went racing across the meadow like a streak of zigzag lightning, making a clatter that frightened every echo from its hiding place.
	www.birdnature.com /jun1898/arkkingbird.html (476 words)

	SDNHM Focus on Western and Cassin's Kingbirds
		The Western Kingbird is a summer visitor only to California, so we have only one map for it, for the breeding season.
		Cassin's Kingbird, by contrast, is found year-round in San Diego County.
		Cassin's Kingbird also occurs farther east than previously known in the Lake Morena area, where revealed by the observations of Sue Smith and Rich and Susan Breisch.
	www.sdnhm.org /research/birdatlas/focus/kingbirds.html (737 words)

	Couch's Kingbird
		Once while chasing a nearby Cassin's Kingbird, these loud "pik" notes were interspersed with higher, soft "seep" notes resulting in "PIK seep, PIK seep....." This pattern with the softer notes was heard only in flight and only while chasing the Cassin's Kingbird.
		Last January, 1997 I studied several Couch's Kingbirds near Corpus Christie, Texas where I was struck by the intensity and saturation of the green coloration on their backs.
		The bird was induced to call by playing a tape of a known Couch's Kingbird and Karen's tape includes commentary by Jim Pike distinguishing the calls of the bird and the calls of the tape which can also be heard on the recording.
	fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us /~jmorlan/coki.html (1114 words)

	Birds of Nova Scotia - Eastern Kingbird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Kingbirds are found commonly in summer only in agricultural areas.
		Remarks Like other members of the flycatcher family, a high percentage of the kingbird's food consists of insects taken on the wing, but on occasion it also eats fruit.
		The Eastern Kingbird's call is a high-pitched metallic chirp, often prolonged into a chatter.
	museum.gov.ns.ca /mnh/nature/nsbirds/bns0249.htm (456 words)

	Birds of Nova Scotia - Western Kingbird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The first Western Kingbirds in fall normally appear in September or October (average 20 September, earliest 27 August), and the last ones are seen routinely in November and occasionally in December (average 10 November, latest 20 December).
		Remarks This kingbird of the western plains resembles our native Eastern Kingbird only in size, shape and behaviour, for its plumage markings are distinctly different.
		It is grayish green on the back, pale gray on the breast, white at the chin, sulphur-yellow on the belly, and its tail feathers are fl, except the white-edged outer feathers.
	museum.gov.ns.ca /mnh/nature/nsbirds/bns0248.htm (259 words)

	The Hawk Owl's Nest: In Search of a Gray Kingbird
		I had already planned on birding Sandy Hook today, but when a report of a Gray Kingbird came in on Saturday night, my plans went from casual birding to rarity chasing.
		West of the pond is a large wooded area of cottonwoods, poison ivy, bayberry, and beach plum.
		Instead of a Kingbird, we found several Merlins, a Kestrel, and a Cooper's Hawk perched on various snags out in the dunes.
	hawkowl.blogspot.com /2006/09/in-search-of-gray-kingbird.html (649 words)

	Birds: The Kingbird
		We will quote a few of the opinions of well-known observers as to whether his other characteristics are admirable, and let the reader form his own conclusion.
		But we will hear Dr. Brewer: "The name, Kingbird, is given it on the supposition that it is superior to all other birds in the reckless courage with which it will maintain an unequal warfare.
		The Kingbird is a common bird in Eastern United States, but is rare west of the Rocky Mountains.
	www.birdnature.com /oct1897/kingbird.html (477 words)

	Georgia Wildlife Web Site; birds: Tyrannus tyrannus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		During the breeding season, the Eastern Kingbird occurs in most of the United States except the western coastal states and the Southwest.
		The Eastern Kingbird is a common Brown-headed Cowbird host.
		However, while birds of many other species raise the cowbird young instead of or in addition to their own young, the Eastern Kingbird almost always recognizes the Cowbird egg as an intruder, and rejects or damages it.
	museum.nhm.uga.edu /gawildlife/birds/passeriformes/ttyrannus.html (450 words)

	Eastern Kingbird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		During the summer months, the kingbird’s dzeet call can be heard in brushy areas near the prairie.
		Eastern Kingbirds can be seen and heard at the visitor center near forest edges.
		Eastern Kingbirds are known as being particularly aggressive to nest predators—they can attack and chase away many other birds like jays, hawks, owls, crows and even vultures and eagles.
	www.nps.gov /archive/wica/Eastern_Kingbird.htm (101 words)

	Thick-billed Kingbird in Yuma - Feb-Mar 2002
		Jeff Coker found this Thick-billed Kingbird on Saturday, Feb 15, 2003 in the late morning while compiling birds for the backyard bird count.
		On afternoon of the 21st, I returned to the site and got some additional photos, including this photo where the kingbird is consorting with other avian brethren.
		The bird is close to the intersection of Somerton Ave and 32nd Street, on the far west side of Yuma.
	www.southwestbirders.com /kingbird.htm (167 words)

	NYSOA - The Kingbird
		The most important function of The Kingbird is the seasonal recording by the birders of migration data, and breeding and distributional changes.
		This data is compiled by a team of ten Regional Editors from information supplied to them by individual birders and presented quarterly according to season.
		Institutional subscriptions to The Kingbird are $25 to US addresses, $33 to all others, annually on a calendar year basis only.
	www.nybirds.org /Publications/kingbird.htm (260 words)

	eNature.com Nature Guides
		Like the Horned Lark, the Western Kingbird has benefited from the cutting of forests; the species has moved eastward in recent decades.
		After the young fledge it is not uncommon to see half a dozen or more kingbirds sally from the dry upper branches of shade trees to capture insects.
		In the Southwest, especially in arid regions, there are two other kingbirds, Cassin's (Tyrannus vociferans) and Tropical (Tyrannus melancholicus), that look like the Western; however, the Western is distinguished by white feathers on the sides of the fl tail.
	www.enature.com /flashcard/show_flash_card.asp?recordNumber=BD0290 (171 words)

	FLMNH - Possible Loggerhead Kingbird in Florida (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Greg thought that this may be a Loggerhead Kingbird (Tyrannus caudifasciatus), a Caribbean species that was formerly on the ABA list based on a few Florida records from the 1970s, but was removed following reappraisal of the records based on a paper by P. Smith, G. Woolfenden, and A. Sprunt, Jr.
		AWK notes: This bird is definitely a Tyrannus kingbird, and its largely fl and white plumage narrows it down to Eastern Kingbird (T.
		cubensis), and Loggerhead Kingbird of the Greater Antilles and Bahamas.
	www.flmnh.ufl.edu /birds/kingbird.htm (432 words)

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