BirdDex
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Tyrannus forficatus
First Seen
| 4/6/18 | |
| San Antonio, TX |
Captured media details
| M | F | U | |
Notes & Observations
5/22/22 – I love this bird. I see it often during this time of year. It loves to perch on powerlines and survey fields and passersby. I recently saw nests of this bird at a local park. Shortly after this discovery, an intense storm occurred and I believe it wiped out the unsheltered nest (seen in the final photo below). Last week we discovered another nest, this time at a local pond, this one looked much more ready to withstand inclement weather.
📸 Captured
🎙️ Recorded
(None yet) 🙁
Further reading
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poll: which bird is the most brat?
it’s like other online polls but its about birds so its not
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Thousands of Purple Martins form a daily ‘birdnado’ in Texas as they stage for 2024 fall migration
Every year after laying their eggs and fledging their chicks, thousands and thousands of Purple Martin birds concentrate into a mega flock. They begin roosting together nightly in the lush trees of a Petco parking lot in Round Rock, Texas. Because birds are cool and thousands of birds are obviously more cool (bird math), Travis…
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Louder, closer, clearer: Recordings birds with a parabolic microphone
My first parabolic microphone recently arrived in the mail. I took it for a spin the past few weekends to see how it felt to use and how it sounded compared to my shotgun microphone setup.