What Does an Ash-Throated Flycatcher Look Like? Key field marks include the reddish-brown tail and wings and yellow belly. “What kind of bird is this? It was photographed in Show Low, Arizona,” asks ...

Flycatchers in the genus Empidonax are among the most difficult avian taxonomic groups to identify to species. Observers often rely on calls or songs in the field or detailed morphometrics in the hand ...

Sixteen people expressed individual versions of gasps, oohs and aahs when the bird left the post and spread its tail as it flew an arc before settling back on the post. That’s what flycatchers do: ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of colorful songbird in the Galápagos Islands, with one catch: it's extinct. Researchers used molecular data from samples of museum specimens to determine that ...

Upon meeting John Muir, the man who was to be his guide on a May 1903 trip into what would later become Yosemite National Park, President Theodore Roosevelt had a simple question: How does one ...

Mainers love their birds and so this summer we are telling you about a different bird each week with the help of Maine Audubon. In this Bird of the Week segment, Maine Audubon's Sally Stockwell helps ...

The two closely related bird species, the collared flycatcher and the pied flycatcher, can reproduce with each other, but the females are more strongly attracted to a male of their own species. This ...

The 64th Supplement to the American Ornithological Society’s (AOS) Check-list of North American Birds, published today in Ornithology, includes numerous updates to the classification of North American ...

The great-crested flycatcher cannot be called a conspicuous bird, but nor is it shy. The least conspicuous part of the flycatcher is the crest. It’s seldom seen, except by other flycatchers, who see ...

A small, brown-feathered Southwestern willow flycatcher songbird perches on a tree branch. (Pacific Southwest Region USFWS/Wikimedia Commons via Courthouse News) (CN) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...