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 ...

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.

This bird is called an “Alder” Flycatcher in honor of its habitat preference. ... The female lays one egg per day and then starts the process of incubation, ...

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.

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.

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 ...