Nests are placed about six feet high on terminal twigs of oak and alder.
Traill Flycatcher: Empidonax traillii traillii (Audubon).—This flycatcher has only recently been found nesting within Kansas; the species is not included in analyses above. Twenty-three nesting records are here reported, for the species in Kansas City, Jackson and Platte counties, Missouri. Most of these records are from within a few hundred yards of the political boundary of Kansas. The Traill Flycatcher is a local summer resident in extreme northeastern Kansas (Doniphan County), in wet woodland and riparian groves. Temporal occurrence is not well-documented; first dates run from May 19 to 25; the last dates of annual occurrence, possibly not all for transients, run from August 14 to September 24.
Breeding schedule.—Twenty-three records of breeding are from May 21 to July 10 ([Fig. 5]); the modal date for egg-laying is June 15.
Number of eggs.—Clutch-size is 3 eggs (3.4, 2-5; 22).
Nests are placed in forks, crotches, and occasionally near trunks, chiefly of willow, from 4.5 to 12 feet high (averaging six feet).
Eastern Wood Pewee: Contopus virens (Linnaeus).—This summer resident is common in the east, but is rare in the west. Preferred habitat is in edge of forest and woodland. Temporal occurrence is indicated in [Table 13].
Breeding schedule.—Nineteen dates of egg-laying span the period June 1 to July 20 ([Fig. 5]); the modal date for completion of clutches is June 15, and more than half of all clutches are laid in the period June 11 to 20.
Number of eggs.—Clutch-size is about 3 eggs.
Nests are placed on upper surfaces of horizontal limbs of oak, elm, and sycamore, about 22 feet high.
Horned Lark: Eremophila alpestris (Linnaeus).—Breeding populations are resident in open country with short or cropped vegetation. E. a. praticola (Henshaw) lives in the east, and E. a. enthymia (Oberholser) in the west.