Mnemonics help to remember bird names. For example, the chickadee is a well-named species, its call sounding like “chicka-dee-dee-dee.” The olive-sided flycatcher has a bit more flair to its famed ...

Back in the day, we did not have an app that could tell us what birds we were hearing. Now we have Merlin from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. Press “record” on this free app, and it listens to ...

The Olive-sided flycatcher’s body is grayish and the white belly has greenish-gray flanks, but the olive color on the sides can be difficult to see. The darker flanks do give the olive-sided a ...