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Great Kiskadee

            The great kiskadee, pitangus sulphuratus, is a passerine bird. It is a large tyrant flycatcher. It is almost omnivorous and hunts like a shrike or flycatcher, waiting on an open perch high in a tree to sally out and catch insects in flight or to pounce upon rodents and similar small vertebrates (such as other birds' chicks and bats). It will also take prey (such as small snakes, lizards, frogs, perched insects, spiders, millipedes and land snails) and some seeds and fruit from vegetation by gleaning and jumping for it or ripping it off in mid-hover, and occasionally dives for freshwater snails, fish or tadpoles in shallow water, making it one of the few fishing passerines.

Costa Rica, La Fortuna

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Taken in: Costa Rica / Provincia de Alajuela / La Fortuna / La Fortuna (show map)

Taken on: June 13, 2025

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