Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
Breeding Range. (Fig. 100). Fairly common in the wooded deltaic sand area of western Pembina County, in the Pembina Hills, in the Turtle Mountains, in the wooded hills and lake shores of the Devils Lake - Stump Lake area, in the wooded lake shores in Sargent County and southwestern Richland County, and in wooded valleys along the Red and James rivers and their tributaries; uncommon and local in the wooded valleys along the Mouse River (in McHenry County and eastern Ward County) and Missouri River (along sector between Garrison Dam and mouths of Apple Creek and Little Heart River); rare elsewhere in the Agassiz Lake Plain Region and on the Northeastern, Southern, and Northwestern Drift Plains.
Breeding Habitat. Characteristic of fairly extensive tracts of mature floodplain, swamp, and upland deciduous forest, particularly those with partially open canopy. Along the Missouri River, this species was recorded only in a late successional stage of floodplain forest that was dominated by American elm, green ash, and box elder (E. A. Hibbard).
Nesting. Probable breeding season: Early June to early August. During June 19-21 [1915], a nest found near Manvel in Grand Forks County was situated in a cavity of a dead tree limb (R. Kellogg). On June 20 [1960] in Burleigh County, an adult was flushed from a nest situated in a cavity of a dead stub of a box elder, about 7 feet above ground (E. A. Hibbard). On July 1 [1917] in the vicinity of Wahpeton, an adult, carrying nesting material, was observed entering an old flicker hole about 30 feet above the ground in a dead tree (Jensen 1918). A nest was reported during July [1937] at Fort Ransom in Ransom County (H. Kyllingstad). From four to six young were recorded on July 24 [1964] at Fargo (North Dakota State University Museum catalog).
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| Figure 100. Breeding Range of Great Crested Flycatcher. |
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