This week’s featured creature is a member of the genus Empidonax, which is a group of flycatcher species that are very similar in appearance to each other. Identifying these birds in the field can be ...
WASHINGTON— Longtime conservation partners the Center for Biological Diversity and Maricopa Audubon Society took to the courts today to fight once more to protect the endangered Southwestern willow ...
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 ...
(KRQE) – A New Mexico songbird will remain an endangered species despite pushback from industry groups. A petition was filed in 2015 saying the Willow Flycatcher was not endangered. The US First and ...
The 64th Supplement to the American Ornithological Society’s (AOS) Check-list of North American Birds, published today in Ornithology, includes numerous updates to the classification of North American ...
A federal court upheld the southwestern willow flycatcher’s protection under the Endangered Species Act following a lawsuit by the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association. The cattle growers challenged ...
Flycatchers in the genus Empidonax are among the most difficult avian taxonomic groups to identify to species. Observers often rely on calls or songs in the field or detailed morphometrics in the hand ...
Scientists have discovered a new species of colorful songbird in the Galápagos Islands, with one catch: it's extinct. Researchers used molecular data from samples of museum specimens to determine that ...
The two closely related bird species, the collared flycatcher and the pied flycatcher, can reproduce with each other, but the females are more strongly attracted to a male of their own species. This ...
Upon meeting John Muir, the man who was to be his guide on a May 1903 trip into what would later become Yosemite National Park, President Theodore Roosevelt had a simple question: How does one ...
The researchers used molecular data from samples of museum specimens housed at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco to sequence the DNA and piece together an evolutionary history of two ...
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