Residents and visitors often see swallow-tailed kites flashing overhead during the spring months as they hunt just above the ...

Monotypic. Length 10–14.8". Adult: medium-size with a long, forked tail. The male’s tail is longer than the female’s. Entirely pale gray head and back; extensive white in outer tail ...

Found mostly in Mexico and south through Argentina, this bird is known for its exceptionally long tail, which is forked and as much as three times as long as the bird’s body. It has a white ...

Most remarkably, Baminornis had a short tail ending in a pygostyle ... The furcula is a forked bone found in birds and some dinosaurs. It likely belongs to Ornithuromorpha, a diverse group ...