Birds can be more resilient than people think, and the Brewster flycatcher might be able to make a go of it as we move into the colder months, Faherty said. "As long as it can find insects," he said.

An 8-year-old Hammond’s flycatcher that arrived in Fairbanks surpasses the previous oldest recorded bird of its species, one that was 7 years old when biologists banded and captured her in Oregon.

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Only female flycatchers build nests, said Laurens Halsey, a Green Valley-based bird guide who saw the bird last week and said “thrill is rather an understatement” of his feelings about the ...

The female is duller but, like the male, has conspicuous white wing bars. The males are arriving back from West Africa and they go straight to the nest boxes, or tree holes where they wait outside.

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.

Interestingly the birds are socially monogamous, with both male and female taking an active part in nest-building, incubation, brooding and feeding of the young.

The scissor-tailed flycatcher was spotted flying around the Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory last week. It was the first local sighting of the bird in over 30 years.

However, when Moditha first spotted the bird in 2021, it had a mix of white and rufous feathers, indicating it was still a juvenile then. Barat is a beautiful male Asian paradise flycatcher from ...

A file photo of a flycatcher bird. This was the species that scientists focused on when recreating their nighttime songs. bearacreative/Getty ...