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.

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, ...

The first modern record of this fork-tailed beauty was in 1975, in Sandusky County. It would be 14 years before another sighting, in Ashtabula County, in 1989. These birds didn’t tarry and were ...