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 ...

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While visiting Florissant Fossil Beds decades ago, I was rewarded with one of my fondest birdwatching memories, a Cordilleran Flycatcher nesting in one of the mammoth petrified redwood stumps. This ...