Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

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 male was guarding his partner on a nest in the crook of a snag beside a pond at Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge: http://www.fws.gov/refuges/profiles/inde...

Notes:

The nest: PN http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/255...