Thin and long tailed, with outer tail feathers almost entirely white (tail from below looks white). The bill is thin and pale gray. Breeding male: blue-gray above, including most of head and back.

Valerie Sinex, owner of Wild Birds Unlimited in Yorba Linda, noticed a recent increase in customer sightings of exotic black and white birds with exceptionally long tails and bright red-orange bills.

Long tailed ... birds grow! This mouse-like bird is one of the most pleasing visual treats in the garden. Their black, white and pink plumage marks them out against their better-known cousins ...

Undersides with rufous barring, undertail is white. Juvenile: brown above, with rufous edges and white spots on upperwing coverts. Tail long ... preying on small- to medium-size birds and small ...

A 115-million-year-old fossilized bird with a pair of long, ribbon-like tail feathers is the oldest ... much of a role in balance or flight. The small, toothy bird belongs to an extinct group ...

Scientists have uncovered the fossil of a bird that lived 120 million years ago, and it definitely had flair, including unusually long tail ... to a modern blue jay. However, its tail reached ...

This illustration shows how Sinosauropteryx would have looked with their orange-and-white striped tails. ((Chuang Zhao and Lida Xing)) A small ... long dinosaur Sinosauropteryx and the early bird ...

It had feathers and wings, so it was clearly a bird — but it sported a long tail and sharp claws, which seemed reptilian. A smattering of other feathery Jurassic fossils, including those known ...