Head south to see this flame-red, desert-dwelling bird. Learn where to find a vermilion flycatcher, and what their song sounds like.

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 ...

A Fork-tailed Flycatcher. Credit: Valentina Gómez-Bahamón, Field Museum Bird feathers have many different functions. Softer down keeps a bird warm and stiffer wing feathers are used for flight.

The official State Bird of Oklahoma is the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, which most should recognize since it was depicted on the 2008 Oklahoma quarter and is on the current license plate. It’s a ...