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This striking bird of Asia is famous for two elongated outer feathers that sprout from a forked tail. They are made of “wires ...
The striking scissor-tailed flycatcher is an icon of Oklahoma and beyond. Learn about their nests, diet and more.
A fork-tailed flycatcher is gobbling up grasshoppers, perching on a powerline and attracting avid bird-watchers to Desha County. Birders are flocking there to see this rare bird, which has been ...
Fork-tailed flycatchers are very aggressive birds, so to lure them in, the researchers set up a taxidermy hawk for the flycatchers to attack. The scientists took video and audio recordings of the ...
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 ...
(Inside Science) -- The fork-tailed flycatcher whistles with its wings in two different accents, potentially more evidence this bird is splitting into two species, a new study finds. Birds are known ...
The normally South American bird may have had a case of reverse migration, mistaking north for south. Fall migration always has some surprises in store. One of the most delightful vagrants in ...
The fork-tailed species will follow meerkats as they forage, taking beak-sized morsels that they dig up or flush out, and even occasionally stealing prey from the meerkats themselves.
A fork-tailed flycatcher was seen by multiple observers in Lebanon on Sept. 20 and included in New Hampshire Audubon's Rare Bird Alert for Sept. 26.
The fork-tailed drongo (Dicrurus adsimilis) is a beautiful, shiny black-feathered bird with crimson red eyes. This sneaky birds steal food from others by making false alarm calls.
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 ...
A fork-tailed flycatcher is gobbling up grasshoppers, perching on a powerline and attracting avid bird-watchers to Desha County. Birders are flocking there to see this rare bird, which has been ...