Today, I introduce you to just such a bird, the great crested flycatcher (Myiarchus crinitus). To be a little more transparent, I think I need to clarify one aspect of this particular bird. It is not ...

Tails of juvenile brown-cresteds and ash-throateds are like the great crested’s but overall paler and lack broad white stripe on innermost secondary.

“Although the guide books say this is a common bird, this morning was the first time I’ve ever seen a great crested flycatcher,” she wrote on her post. I congratulated her and asked if she ...

Today I introduce you to just such a bird, the great crested flycatcher (Myiarchuscrinitus). To be a little more transparent, I think I need to clarify one aspect of this particular bird.

The melody was diagnostic. A great crested flycatcher was singing from the treetops. As usual, I couldn’t see the bird. Inhabiting the uppermost layers of the dense summer canopy, the species ...

Specifically, the great crested flycatcher can be your new best friend in keeping pests at bay. The great crested flycatcher ...

I secretly scrambled to learn what a great crested flycatcher was, which led me to a better understanding of a whole category of little known "garden birds." The great crested flycatcher is the ...

It was the dawn song of a great crested flycatcher. The bird had migrated from its winter home in southern Mexico or Central America to breed in my neighborhood. The great crested flycatcher is ...

When it comes to bird songs, I'm like a teenager constantly listening to iTunes. Bird vocalizations in my neighborhood give me a daylong source of joy. And I know the name of every bird by its ...

Main image, a great-crested flycatcher. Inset, a snake bares its fangs. The flycatcher is one of a number of birds that line their nests with shed snakeskin because, a new study reports ...

One morning there was a great-crested flycatcher in the shrubs above the feeders. Flycatchers are agile birds that come north to breed in summer. But these birds with quick, buoyant moves that let ...