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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

David Allen Sibley's Guide to Birds lists 37 species of flycatchers in North America, 17 of which might be seen in Arkansas. The scissor-tailed flycatcher is just one. This family of birds, known as ...

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 ...

FORT SILL, Okla. -- When the creator decided to make a flycatcher with a stupendously long, forked tail, it showed the Big Guy had a sense of humor. If you watch the scissor-tailed flycatcher's sky ...

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 ...

Oklahoma symbol: The scissor-tailed flycatcher was named Oklahoma’s state bird on May 5, 1951, A young pair: The tail of mature male scissor-tailed flycatcher is up to 30 percent longer than that of ...