The striking scissor-tailed flycatcher is an icon of Oklahoma and beyond. Learn about their nests, diet and more.

This striking bird of Asia is famous for two elongated outer feathers that sprout from a forked tail. They are made of “wires ...

Fork-tailed drongos—medium-sized, black or dark grey birds with red eyes that live throughout southern Africa—can suss out and reject African cuckoo eggs in their nests with 93.7 percent ...

Meet the protector of the northshore’s elegant, fork-tailed, bug-eating hawk Jennifer Coulson, the president of the Orleans Audubon Society, has been monitoring the bird’s population for the ...

She contributes to a regional census of the striking fork-tailed raptors. Whether nesting birds are present can be taken into consideration in the permitting process for new development.

Swallow-tailed kites are a migratory bird species that can be seen in Florida for a portion of the year. ... A white-and-black, mid-sized raptor with a deeply forked tail, ...

There are birds that mimic other birds; there are birds that mimic more than one bird at once. ... Perhaps the most duplicitous con birds are the fork-tailed drongos of Africa.

Fork-tailed drongos produce individualised patterns on their eggs, which may help them recognise their own and reject 94 per cent of cuckoo eggs By Christa Lesté-Lasserre 26 July 2023 ...

Among the South American birds, the smallest was the fork-tailed woodnymph at 4.08 grams, and the largest was the Amazonian motmot at 131 grams.

The scissor-tailed flycatcher was spotted flying around the Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory last week. It was the first local sighting of the bird in over 30 years.

The scissor-tailed flycatchers had arrived. The next morning, I took my camera out to try to find the bird again. To my luck, I only had to walk about 30 feet from where my camp was set up to find ...