Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

Tyrannus forficatus

The Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Tyrannus forficatus) is a 39 g town and farmland bird that eats mostly insects and other invertebrates. It migrates.

Family

Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura

Order

Passeriformes

Weight

39 g

Habitat

Human Modified

Diet

Invertebrates

Migration

Migrant

Countries recorded

11

Recorded in United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Canada, Panama, Cuba.

Where to see it: Bocana Río Jiboa (El Salvador); Zamorano Univ. · Campus Farms and River 740-815 masl (Honduras); Cattle Landing · waterfront (Belize); Chichicaxtle · Observatorio de Aves Rapaces Dr. Mario A. Ramos (Mexico); Estero Llano Grande SP WBC (LTC 054) (United States).

Photo: (c) Millie Basden, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist