Listen for the distinctive call of an eastern wood-pewee in summertime forests. Here's how to recognize this bird, by sight ...

For fans of the board game Wingspan, and residents of Oklahoma, the scissor-tailed flycatcher is unmistakable, but for everyone else, here is a primer on this iconic bird. According to Neil Garrison, ...

Wonderful to be home again, home again from a month away! We arrive back on May Day, the beginning of the best birding season here in the Berkshires with migrants streaming in under the cover of ...

Mnemonics help to remember bird names. For example, the chickadee is a well-named species, its call sounding like “chicka-dee-dee-dee.” The olive-sided flycatcher has a bit more flair to its famed ...

Willow flycatcher is widespread. It's best identified by its call, a lively "Fitz-bew" repeated monotonously. At close range, the bird is plain, but attractive, colored in pale gray with a yellowish ...

To follow an olive-sided flycatcher, first you have to catch it. By Emily Anthes For an olive-sided flycatcher, migration can be a marathon. Some of the soot-colored songbirds travel more than 15,000 ...