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 ...

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 ...

High in the canopy of eastern forests, great crested flycatchers (Myiarchus crinitus) swoop out from their perches, snagging flying insects from the air and plucking them from twigs and leaves. These ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Two San Cristóbal Island vermilion flycatcher specimens lay side by side at the California ...

The researchers used molecular data from samples of museum specimens housed at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco to sequence the DNA and piece together an evolutionary history of two ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of colorful songbird in the Galápagos Islands, with one catch: it's extinct. Researchers from the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco State ...