One of the first imperiled animals the Center championed, the southwestern willow flycatcher has suffered more than a century of steady decline. Livestock grazing, dams, water withdrawal, and sprawl ...
David Allen Sibley's Guide to Birds lists 37 species of flycatchers in North America, 17 of which might be seen in Arkansas. The scissor-tailed flycatcher is just one. This family of birds, known as ...
Tucson, Ariz.— In response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed today to reconsider designation of critical habitat for the endangered ...
I made an early morning visit to the wetlands behind Pike’s Nursery in Ballantyne last weekend. My birding this time of year is generally restricted to early morning; the birds get stifled by the heat ...
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 ...
Rather than chasing their prey in flight like many other birds, Acadian flycatchers prefer to ambush insects from a perch. Researchers recently discovered an odd structure in the birds' eyes that may ...
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: ...
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 ...
A new University of Alberta study helps define the most helpful breeding habitat for the least flycatcher, a species of bird in rapid decline. The findings are published in The Wilson Journal of ...
BREWSTER, Mass. — What the heck is a vermilion flycatcher doing in Massachusetts? "It flew the wrong way," Mark Faherty, science coordinator at the Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, said ...
Asian verditer flycatcher, Eumyias thalassina, Swainson, 1838 (synonyms, Eumyias thalassinus, Muscicapa melanops and Stoparola melanops; protonym, Muscicapa thalassina), also known as the Indian ...
David Allen Sibley's Guide to Birds lists 37 species of flycatchers in North America, 17 of which might be seen in Arkansas. The scissor-tailed flycatcher is just one. This family of birds, known as ...