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Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Tyrannus forficatus
33.7291, -96.7768
Field Notes
Description:
Scissor-tailed Flycatchers are slender, stout-billed kingbirds with very long, stiff, deeply forked tails. Males have longer tail feathers than females and immatures. These are pale gray birds with blackish wings and black tails with white edges. Adults have salmon-pink flanks that extend to underwing patches that are very conspicuous in flight. Males are more intensely colored than females.
Habitat:
This one was in a snag by the road, preening between flights out over a pond with heavy vegetation at Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge: http://www.fws.gov/refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=21580
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