Summer
: Breeds.
Fairly common
and
widespread
mid May-early Aug favoring open country, especially the edges of ponds, streams and meadows and pastures.
Migration
:
Uncommon
to
fairly common
in open country from early May with
outliers
from mid April and to early Jun.
Fairly common
mid Aug-early Sep with
outliers
to mid Oct.
Miscellany: Eastern Kingbirds are another aerial insect feeder whose numbers have declined in the last 30 years in parallel with the decline in flying insects. Interestingly for much of their long winter in the western Amazon, they live on fruit.