Piratic Flycatcher

The Piratic Flycatcher is so named for its tendency to appropriate the dome-shaped nests of other birds such as the Yellow-rumped Cacique. The Piratic Flycatcher is generally olive-brown in colour with a white face and dark eye line and moustache. It feeds on fruit and insects.

 

Piratic Flycatcher (Legatus leucophaius)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Piratic Flycatcher (Legatus leucophaius) perched at a Madewini sandpit. (Photo by Kester Clarke / www.kesterclarke.net)