A pair of scissor-tailed flycatchers takes up residence every spring at the same spot along a road near my college in northern Harris County. Migratory songbirds claiming nesting territory at an exact ...

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

Great crested flycatchers — those noisy, zany, bold and colorful birds — are my favorites to welcome back in the spring. You know they are in town as soon as you hear their loud “whee-eep, whee-eep, ...

This spring and summer, I’ve been exploring many of the migratory birds that visit us during the nesting season, including the swallows, our summer warblers and three diverse members of the cardinal ...

Scores of scissor-tailed flycatchers are lining up on power lines, fences and trees before they head to Latin America for the winter. The handsome birds, which bred in Texas, assembled in August and ...

Willow flycatchers have set up territories in Mecklenburg County a handful of times but are still considered a local rarity. Jeff Lemons I made an early morning visit to the wetlands behind Pike’s ...

Just how new species are established is still one of the most central questions in biology. Biologists now describe how they mapped the genomes of the European pied flycatcher and the collared ...

Do birds change their tune in response to urban noise? It depends on the bird species, according to new research. Their work shows that while some birds do adapt their songs in noisy conditions by ...

Birds can chirp, birds can fly and now scientists have new evidence that birds can communicate with each other using sound made with their feathers. A species called the fork-tailed flycatcher, or ...