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Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

Tyrannus forficatus

Description:

Photo take at my backyard this beauty usually is catching bugs early morning.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:

On a open area in the jungle forest. Scissor-tailed Flycatchers breed in open habitats in the southern Great Plains and south Texas and it can be find in the east coast and south Mexico to Panama.

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3 Comments

Gerardo Aizpuru
Gerardo Aizpuru 11 years ago

Thanks Kranti and Nuwan !

KrantiAzad
KrantiAzad 11 years ago

nice !

NuwanChathuranga
NuwanChathuranga 11 years ago

nice pictures !

Gerardo Aizpuru
Spotted by
Gerardo Aizpuru

Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico

Spotted on Mar 4, 2013
Submitted on Mar 4, 2013

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