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 ...

A few scissor-tailed flycatchers winter in southern Florida. Learn how to identify and attract a great crested flycatcher. Similar to the acrobatics of flycatcher feeding, scissor-tailed males perform ...

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Great crested flycatchers will probably look for the nests of northern flickers, red-bellied woodpeckers and even hairy woodpeckers that are located 30 to 50 feet off the ground. These sorts of ...

A near-complete and time-calibrated phylogeny of the Old World flycatchers, robins and chats (Aves, Muscicapidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution , 2023; 178: 107646 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev ...

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 ...

For an olive-sided flycatcher, migration can be a marathon. Some of the soot-colored songbirds travel more than 15,000 miles a year, winging their way from South America to Alaska and then back again.

This is confirmed by a new study of the Old World flycatcher family, to which these birds belong. The study comprises 92 per cent of the more than 300 species in this family. Advanced Search ...