Every year, little black-and-white birds called pied flycatchers make the lengthy trek from sub-saharan Africa to northern Europe to feast on caterpillars, claim a nest, and have babies. This ...

Just how new species are established is still one of the most central questions in biology. Biologists now describe how they mapped the genomes of the European pied flycatcher and the collared ...

The European pied flycatcher, and later its close relative the collared flycatcher, have long been an important research organism for scientists at many universities.

Bird brains might pay the ultimate price for climate change, science says. Pied flycatchers make an annual road trip from sub-Saharan Africa to northern Europe to chow on caterpillars, build nests … ...

Bird poop: not a topic most people take interest in. However, fascinating discoveries are being made from the feces of one slowly disappearing bird in the U.K. Researchers are analyzing pied ...

Researchers drove European pied flycatchers north from the Netherlands to Sweden, where spring arrives two weeks later and food supplies peak at the right time for newly hatched chicks.

The number of rare, breeding pied flycatchers at a Lake District nature reserve has risen by 38% in a decade, the RSPB said. In 2013, 21 male birds were recorded at Haweswater, but this year the ...

Researchers have found yet another way in which climate change has been detrimental to migrating birds. As European winters have become warmer, pied flycatchers traveling from Africa to reach ...

Pied flycatchers, which are small and agile, try to steal nesting facilities from great tits. Flying around great tits as they attempt to build a nest can drive them away.

The RSPB says there were between 50 and 60 breeding pied flycatchers pairs in the reserve.

Researchers have found yet another way in which climate change has been detrimental to migrating birds. As European winters have become warmer, pied flycatchers traveling from Africa to reach ...