Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a long deeply forficate tail which can be opened and shut like a pair of scissors, as a bird. Compare
scissortail .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of birds) having a deeply forked tail
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Examples
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Response: This is an adult scissor-tailed flycatcher, Tyrannus forficatus, a member of the genus Tyrannus, so named for their pugnacious nature when defending their territories against marauding crows and other, even larger, predators.
Mystery bird: scissor-tailed flycatcher, Tyrannus forficatus 2011
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The scissor-tailed flycatcher, eastern meadowlark, lark sparrow, and eastern and western kingbirds are indicator species of the region.
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I saw a scissor-tailed flycatcher there for the first time.
Belize Navidad Field Notes 2006
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I saw a scissor-tailed flycatcher there for the first time.
Archive 2006-12-01 Field Notes 2006
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The scissor-tailed flycatcher is usually content to slack its thirst from the bank.
KGBT 4 - KGBT - News of the Rio Grande Valley Richard Moore 2010
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We ended the day perfectly with Jakob teaching me how to catch scissor-tailed nightjars (Hydropsalis torquata) at our campsite with bare hands!
Museum Blogs 2009
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Oklahoma's state bird is a scissor-tailed flycatcher.
Recently Uploaded Slideshows gtsstl 2009
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There are a handful of conspicuously gaudy species: the vermillion flycatcher of the Southwest, the scissor-tailed flycatcher of the southern Great Plains, the many-colored rush-tyrant of Argentine wetlands.
The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper By Joe Eaton 2008
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The scissor-tailed hummingbird (Hylonimpha macrocerca), paria whitestart (Myioborus pariae), Venezuelan flower-piercer (Diglosa venezuelensis), and grey-headed warbler (Basileuterus griseiceps) are in critical danger, and white-throated barbtail (Premnoplex tatei) is endangered.
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"It provides habitat for pied-billed grebes, eastern meadowlark and scissor-tailed flycatchers.
The Facts: News 2008
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