Today's featured feather friend is the Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher. We spotted the bird along County Route 835 in Hendry County after a six-hour outing at STA-5 (Storm Water Treatment Area), south of Clewiston. A rare visitor to Florida, their normal range is the central plains states and Texas. They migrate through Mexico to winter in Central America.
The Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher is a slender Kingbird with a very long, stiff and forked tail. Adults are similar in appearance with pale gray heads, white underparts, salmon-pink flanks and dark gray wings. Their distinctive long, forked tail is black on top and white on the bottom. Males have longer tails than females, while juveniles are duller in color with shorter tails. These birds are up to 14.5 inches in length with the tail making up over half their length.
The Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher is the state bird of Oklahoma. Click on the links below for more information about this beautiful bird and enjoy these photos of the Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher, Life bird #216 and Florida bird #212 for us.....tweet.....tweet!!
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| Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher (Taken 1/18/14, Hendry County Florida) |
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| Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher (Taken 1/18/14, Hendry County Florida) |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scissor-tailed_Flycatcher
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