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scissor-tailed

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Adj.1.scissor-tailed - (of birds) having a deeply forked tail; "scissor-tailed birds"
caudate, caudated - having a tail or taillike appendage


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A scissor-tailed flycatcher was discovered at the airport early Wednesday morning by local bird expert Jeffrey S.
The increase in armadillos, road runners and the scissor-tailed flycatcher.
Smith was on a family vacation somewhere in western Texas about eight years ago when he spotted a scissor-tailed flycatcher, a small gold, tan and gray sparrow-shaped bird with two long distinctive tails, indigenous to the region but one that he'd never seen before.
 
 
 
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