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Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

Tyrannus forficatus

Photo by gatorfellows
Published on Project Noah
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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:

In the trees by a house and across the street from an urban pond.

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