Anyone who has spent any time birding will understand that certain birds are more difficult to find than others. Anyone who has spent a lifetime birding will understand that certain species are ...

Long ago, I worked in my father's landscape business as a designer. Drafting plans that matched the interests of our clients and drawing images that helped the homeowner visualize their personal ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AGFC) - This week's bird is the Great Crested Flycatcher. A large, assertive flycatcher with rich reddish-brown accents and a lemon-yellow belly, the Great Crested Flycatcher is a ...

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 songs, ...

No sooner had I stepped outside at dawn to pick up the newspaper than a migratory bird’s singular song rang out from an oak tree across the street. The song wasn’t as melodic as the tunes of songbirds ...

On a recent hot afternoon, I heard a loud “wheep” note coming from the woods near my home. I scanned for the unseen caller but didn’t de-tect any bird in the canopy of the nearby trees. Of course, I ...

Flycatchers are members of a big North American bird family, 21 species, many relatives. If they had a reunion some probably would need name tags so they could tell one from another. Identification ...

A great crested flycatcher appears to have nesting material in its bill. It is perched on a tree limb near Kathy Greider's Beaufort County backyard. Submitted photo Birdwatchers often traipse all ...

When people put out a bird house, it’s usually to help bluebirds, but other kinds of birds will occasionally move in and take advantage of a nicely built wooden nesting box, too. Tree swallows like ...

There are 374 species of tyrant flycatchers in the world, only 35 of them in the western Hemisphere and 13 you might find at some time during the summer nesting season or in migration in Mid-Missouri.

The great-crested flycatcher cannot be called a conspicuous bird, but nor is it shy. The least conspicuous part of the flycatcher is the crest. It’s seldom seen, except by other flycatchers, who see ...

William Johnson photographed a great crested flycatcher gathering nesting material in his backyard in Thoroughgood in Virginia Beach. “She is perched on the songbird nesting cage we filled with ...