If you pass by a fenced pasture with scattered trees and shrubs on a summer day, you may see a slender, light gray bird with dark wings perched on the fence or a telephone line. Suddenly, the bird ...

The striking scissor-tailed flycatcher is our only regular “long-tailed kingbird.” It is not only graceful and beautiful, but also common and easy to observe. Monotypic. Length 10–14.8". Adult: medium ...

Scissor-tailed flycatchers are ballet dancers of the sky, moving lithely through the air with long, streaming tails. But their sky dance isn't for show — it's a maneuver deadly to insects. The birds ...

FORT SILL, Okla. -- When the creator decided to make a flycatcher with a stupendously long, forked tail, it showed the Big Guy had a sense of humor. If you watch the scissor-tailed flycatcher's sky ...

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The official State Bird of Oklahoma is the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, which most should recognize since it was depicted on the 2008 Oklahoma quarter and is on the current license plate. It’s a ...

You may not think of grassland when you think of Alabama. But you’d be wrong: Alabama is home to prairie habitat, and along with it, some of its customary birds, like this one - the Scissor-tailed ...

Late April saw the arrival of Western and Eastern Kingbirds, and lots of Scissor-tailed Flycatchers. They are large enough to be noticed, and like to perch in the open quite often, looking for insects ...

(Inside Science) -- The fork-tailed flycatcher whistles with its wings in two different accents, potentially more evidence this bird is splitting into two species, a new study finds. Birds are known ...

Birds can chirp, birds can fly and now scientists have new evidence that birds can communicate with each other using sound made with their feathers. A species called the fork-tailed flycatcher, or ...