On May 11, 2024 I was in Charlotte, North Carolina with my sons Sam and Andrew. Sam lives there and Andrew was visiting from New York. We spent some time hiking on the Haw River Trail in Saxapahaw. On our hike I got one very poor photo of the eastern kingbird.
The eastern kingbird is gray-black on the upperparts with light underparts. It has a long black tail with a white end and long, pointed wings. They have a red patch on the crown which is seldom seen.
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| Eastern kingbird illustration from Birds of the World. |
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| Range from Birds of the World. Orange is breeding, yellow is migrating and light blue is non-breeding. |
The genus Tyrannus contains the kingbirds and I have seen 5 of the 13 species within the genus: the western kingbird (in California), tropical kingbird (in Ecuador and Colombia), loggerhead kingbird (in Jamaica) and Cassin's kingbird (in California) in addition to the eastern kingbird.
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