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Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (pair)

Tyrannus forficatus

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:

Stopped briefly in the top of a Red Cedar tree.

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gatorfellows
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gatorfellows

Denton, Texas, USA

Spotted on Jun 5, 2013
Submitted on Jun 7, 2013

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