#fork tailed flycatcher

[wingedjewels]

Mosquerito Flycatcher "Aves de Costa Rica" "Raúl Vega" "Tijereta Sabanera" "Tijerilla" "Fork-tailed Flycatcher" "Tyrannus savana" by Raúl Vega Via Flickr: Humedales de Medio Queso, Costa Rica

[bossygifs]

Disney's Aves Raras vs. the real thing:

Anambé-Preto: Amazonian Umbrellabird (Cephalopterus ornatus)

Arapapá: Boat-billed Heron (Cochlearius cochlearius)

Tijereta: Fork-tailed flycatcher (Tyrannus savana)

Arapaçu de bico curvo: Curve-billed Scythebill (Campylorhamphus procurvoides)

Marrequito (?): Yellow-chinned Spinetail (Certhiaxis cinnamomeus)

Photo credit:

Joao Quental / Macaulay Library

Luzate Amaral / WikiAves

Cláudio Dias Timm / Idaho Fish and Game

Anne Bielamowicz / Macaulay Library

Stephen Jay

[karthara]

Ended up using the American Black Swift, the Chimney Swift, the Scizzor-tailed Flycatcher, the Fork-Tailed Flycatcher, the Tree Swallow, and the Barn Swallow for references this time as it sounded like an insectivore that catches it's meals on the wing and nesting close to if not inside human buildings. I'm a sucker for pretty tails, thus the Flycatchers. Hands are still bugging me so I'm not getting into more detail with the behaviours mentioned this time.

[witchstone]

okay, birds seen at home in june round up! comes to a total of 62 species, which is oddly high for the middle of winter. the highlight was the green twinspot, which i’d only got my first ever sighting of two weeks earlier. presumably it had only found its way to our garden because of the heavy rains and flash floods (and the tornado what the fuck) a few days prior - they’re forest birds, whereas our area is more broad-leaf woodland.

full list and photos under the cut!

bar-throated apalis, black-collared + crested + white-eared barbet, cape batis, dark-capped bulbul, green-backed camaroptera*, yellow-fronted canary, fork-tailed drongo, crowned eagle*, southern black flycatcher, african dusky flycatcher, african paradise flycatcher (odd for this time of year), egyptian goose, gymnogene, southern hadeda, purple-crested loerie. speckled mousebird, black-headed oriole, rose-ringed parakeet*, black-backed puffback, red-capped robin-chat, cape glossy + black-bellied + red-winged starling, collared + greater double-collared + olive + amethyst + white-bellied sunbird, olive + kurrichane thrush, golden-rumped tinkerbarbet, southern black tit, spectacled + village weaver, cape white-eye, cardinal + golden-tailed woodpecker, red-eyed + tambourine* dove, brown-hooded kingfisher, red-backed + bronze mannikin, klaas’s cuckoo*, lesser honeyguide, grey-headed bushshrike*, familiar chat, southern grey-headed sparrow, woolly-necked stork, sombre greenbul*, green woodhoopoe, cape wagtail, southern boubou, black sparrowhawk, african palm swift, green twinspot, black cuckooshrike?, black-headed heron, little sparrowhawk?, pied crow, african goshawk

* = call heard, no visuals, ? = i’m reasonably sure it was that, but not 100%

dark-capped bulbul, taken at a nature reserve up the hill

eurytela dryope

not sure yet. maybe a mocker swallowtail judging by the body?

olive sunbird my beloved

the green twinspot!! absolutely not a great photo, but i was surprised to get a pic at all tbh. either a female or juvenile

bosduival’s tree nymph

souther hadeda. chicken sized rats and the worst dawn chorus you’ve ever heard

golden-tailed woodpecker

gold-spotted sylph. have never seen one before in my life, but it was hanging around the laundry

southern black tit!

[edlboetie]

"You know, I've always hated the word paradise. I thought it was just stupid born-again-speak for dead. But now I'm having to rethink that, a little bit. Like that bird there--" "Our fork-tailed flycatcher." "It seems perfectly contented. I'm starting to think paradise isn't eternal contentment. It's more like there's something eternal about feeling contented. There's no such thing as eternal life, because you're never going to outrun time, but you can still escape time if you're contented, because then time doesn't matter. Does that make any sense?" "A lot of sense." "So I envy animals. Dogs, especially, because nothing smells bad to them."

- Jonathan Franzen, Purity

[ophthalmotropy]

The ONE thing I will hand to summer is the immigration of fork-tailed flycatchers. They're a delight.

[patricianicoloso]

Tesourinha/Fork-tailed Flycatcher 

Tyrannus savana

[fatbirdpics]

Fork-tailed flycatcher, Costanera Sur, Buenos Aires. Naturally I got it at the angle that least shows off the beautiful tail :')

[stranger-nature]

Birdtober 2022

Day 16: Forked tail

Species: Fork-tailed Flycatcher (Tyrannus savana)

[occultdaddy]

When you give Grian bird feet, what kind of feet do you give him?

I gave him Zygodactyly feet, the climbing ones, when I gave him bird feet. I think it fits him. Also I think most parrots have these kinds? Although I didn't draw him with parrot in mind. Maybe an osprey or an owl? But since it was a weird creechur I didn't think too much of the bird type. Just the feet. And tail feathers. forked - "The long, forked tail of the scissor-tailed flycatcher enables the bird to fly acrobatically with quick twists and turns" Although my creechur has arms and not wings oop.

[squawkoverflow]

A new variant has been added!

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Tyrannus forficatus) © Barry Kent MacKay

It hatches from central, colored, distinctive, forked, large, long, open, overall, pacific, and pale eggs.

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[witchstone]

took myself off impromptu to one of the local nature reserves on thursday (despite it probably not being a good idea since the rolling black outs often mean no cell phone signal which means. no way of getting home) and w o w did i see a lot

TWO different kinds of duiker, which i haven't seen there in years thanks to local dogs killing them (common grey duiker and a group of blue duiker who hadn't heard that they're supposed to be shy), brown-backed honeybird (!), tambourine dove, sombre + yellow-bellied greenbul (!), palmnut vulture flying overhead (!), southern tchagra (!), cape + chinspot batis, black saw-wing (!), golden-tailed woodpecker, african paradise + african dusky + southern black flycatcher, terrestrial brownbul, green-backed camaroptera, tawny-flanked prinia, red-capped robin-chat, white-browed scrub-robin (!), amethyst + collared sunbird, neddicky, grey waxbill (!), golden-breasted bunting (!), yellow-throated longclaw (!), red-backed mannikin, yellow-fronted canary and the usuals (speckled mousebird, purple-crested turaco, red-eyed dove, fork-tailed drongo, bulbul etc etc). also heard bar-throated apalis, olive sunbird, black-collared barbet, golden-rumped tinkerbarbet, crowned eagle and black-headed oriole.

no new ticks, but two confirmed ticks of the black saw-wings (flitting about on the forests edge) and finally a confirmed visual of the yellow-bellied greenbul. very excited to see the palmnut vulture. grey waxbill was nice too, since i've only seen it once before, and the brown-backed honeybird was only my third sighting. didn't get any photos, i ran out of memory before i'd even left the forest area lol. overall 46 species including calls, which isn't bad for two hours in the afternoon

[animalids]

Fork-tailed flycatcher (Tyrannus savana)

Photo by Gonzalo Chacon Hernandez

[bzmtours]

[birdsagainstgravity]

Fork-tailed Flycatcher (Tyrannus savana)

© Cajunspice

[mayhw]

I needed to draw my girl, and her new pet bird, a fork-tailed flycatcher (they are my fav birds)