Flycatchers are a very large and diverse assortment of birds whose diet is primarily flying insects. Some also eat insects on the ground, and migrating flycatchers may eat fruit. Several ash throated ...

Sometimes, hanging a simple bird feeder in your yard won't cut it. Attracting specific bird species to your garden often ...

Scissor-tailed flycatchers rank among the most elegant and easily recognizable songbirds in Arkansas and all of North America. With extremely long tails and peachy-rose breast color that peeks out ...

Despite overcast skies, it is a great morning to see gulls, terns and shorebirds along Bryan Beach. We have made the trek to the little beach near Freeport on Saturday of Labor Day weekend. We aren't ...

If you pass by a fenced pasture with scattered trees and shrubs on a summer day, you may see a slender, light gray bird with dark wings perched on the fence or a telephone line. Suddenly, the bird ...

A pair of scissor-tailed flycatchers takes up residence every spring at the same spot along a road near my college in northern Harris County. Migratory songbirds claiming nesting territory at an exact ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A scissor-tailed flycatcher perches on a fence near Lake Hefner. This state-honored bird migrates away from Oklahoma in the winter ...

We feared the show might end prematurely when a Cooper’s hawk torpedoed the scissor-tail, sending it dashing to the marsh for cover. But the hawk missed and returned several minutes later, flying ...

For fans of the board game Wingspan, and residents of Oklahoma, the scissor-tailed flycatcher is unmistakable, but for everyone else, here is a primer on this iconic bird. According to Neil Garrison, ...

Sixteen people expressed individual versions of gasps, oohs and aahs when the bird left the post and spread its tail as it flew an arc before settling back on the post. That’s what flycatchers do: ...

Sixteen people expressed individual versions of gasps, oohs and aahs when the bird left the post and spread its tail as it flew an arc before settling back on the post. That’s what flycatchers do: ...