The songs a bird sings while dreaming have been revealed for the first time. Researchers at the University of Buenos Aires created a way to track the vocal muscle activity of birds as they sleep, and ...

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

A fork-tailed flycatcher is gobbling up grasshoppers, perching on a powerline and attracting avid bird-watchers to Desha County. Birders are flocking there to see this rare bird, which has been ...

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 ...

I was recently creeping through a clearing of downed trees in a wooded Brooklyn park with my iPhone in hand. Birds were singing everywhere, but through the din, I was recording a peculiar song: It was ...

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.

This is the Sulawesi streaked flycatcher, or Muscicapa sodhii. It's been waiting years for that name. On Monday, a collaborative team led by researchers from Princeton University, Michigan State ...

Biologists have confirmed the discovery of a new bird species more than 15 years after the elusive animal was first seen. A team led by researchers from Princeton University, Michigan State University ...

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 ...

Birders with binoculars and cameras are flocking to a remote state park in search of a small yellow-chested bird that apparently crossed the U.S. border for the first time from its high-mountain ...

An Asian paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone paradisi) with distinctive markings on its head that has returned to the same home garden in Colombo for four consecutive migratory seasons has sparked ...