Found mostly in Mexico and south through Argentina, this bird is known for its exceptionally long tail, which is forked and ...

keel-shaped tail of the great-tailed grackle allows the bird to dart right, left, up and down as it flits around city streets and buildings. The long, forked tail of the scissor-tailed flycatcher ...

Some birds are notoriously hard to identify ... four black-and-white raptors with distinctive forked tails came soaring over the tree line, circling in the distance, occasionally changing ...

Suddenly, the bird launches into the air, flaring out its wings and – surprise! – a forked, black and white tail stretching longer than its body. To pursue an airborne insect, the bird dives ...

forked tail," said Jennifer Coulson, who is working with the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science in a study of the birds. "I think it's the most beautiful bird on the planet." Swallow-tailed ...

A white-and-black, mid-sized raptor with a deeply forked tail, swallow-tailed kites (Elanoides forficatus) are arguably the most acrobatic and athletic of birds found in the Sunshine State.

Though the birds are now a rare sight in Kansas ... striking black and white plumage and deeply forked tail, according to descriptions from the Nature Conservancy. Their diet consists of ...

It just looks more dramatic when the tail is longer than the bird's body, and forked besides. What advantage does the scissor-tailed flycatcher's tail give that makes dragging it everywhere worth it?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If you believe honesty is the best policy, you would have a hard time convincing the forked-tailed drongo. This tricky African bird is the pathological liar of the animal ...

They glide through the air on slender outstretched wings, torquing their long, forked tails to rudder their flight course. Swallow-tailed kites are in the Accipitridae bird family that includes ...

Both are white and grey birds with a black cap and forked tail but the common tern has a black tip to its orange-red bill while the Arctic tern, pictured, has a blood red bill with no black tip.