Learn what an ash-throated flycatcher looks like and where to spot one. Also learn what the bird eats and where it builds a ...

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: ...

(KRQE) – A New Mexico songbird will remain an endangered species despite pushback from industry groups. A petition was filed in 2015 saying the Willow Flycatcher was not endangered. The US First and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A federal court upheld the southwestern willow flycatcher’s protection under the Endangered Species Act following a lawsuit by the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association. The cattle growers challenged ...

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 Kashmir Flycatcher breeds in the northwestern Himalayan region, particularly in the Kashmir belt, at elevations of 1,800 ...