Flycatchers are a very large and diverse assortment of birds whose diet is primarily flying insects. Some also eat insects on the ground, and migrating flycatchers may eat fruit. Several ash throated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A scissor-tailed flycatcher perches on a fence near Lake Hefner. This state-honored bird migrates away from Oklahoma in the winter ...

A woman uses binoculars to watch birds near a lake in her backyard. - Mike Condon Photography/Shutterstock If you're an avid birdwatcher, you may have already ...

Scissor-tailed flycatchers rank among the most elegant and easily recognizable songbirds in Arkansas and all of North America. With extremely long tails and peachy-rose breast color that peeks out ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite overcast skies, it is a great morning to see gulls, terns and shorebirds along Bryan Beach. We have made the trek to the little beach near Freeport on Saturday of Labor Day weekend. We aren't ...

A pair of scissor-tailed flycatchers takes up residence every spring at the same spot along a road near my college in northern Harris County. Migratory songbirds claiming nesting territory at an exact ...

Excited birders with spotting scopes and cameras in tow gathered at Orange Airport this week to catch a glimpse of a bird rarely seen in this area. A scissor-tailed flycatcher was discovered at the ...

Some birds sing to attract a mate. Others dance or display colorful feathers. But in the moonlit forests and shrublands of ...

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 ...