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 ...

The fork-tailed makes 28 flycatcher species found in Colorado. Among the songbirds only the warblers with 47 species and the sparrows with 33 species outnumber the flycatchers in our state.

Scissor-tailed flycatchers we can expect to see here, but fork-tailed flycatchers were until recently birds of merely wishful thinking. So when one was seen outside Lafayette, north of Arapahoe ...

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 other two are the rare scissor-tailed flycatcher and the mega-rare fork-tailed flycatcher. ... many of the Breeding Bird Surveys, administered by the USGS, take place in early June.

Recent sightings (through Oct. 29) as reported to Mass Audubon. A fork-tailed flycatcher was seen and photographed in Chatham but was not reported until it had been gone several days.

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.

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 ...