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Tyrannus forficatus
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.
This one was in a snag by the road at Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge: http://www.fws.gov/refuges/profiles/inde...
Spotted on Jun 2, 2013
Submitted on Jun 4, 2013
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