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photo: Bob Zaremba
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This bird was originally reported by Ted Seckinger at
9:00 am on Thursday, 4 May 2000. The bird was spotted south of
McDonough, GA, along King Mill Rd., and Ted reported that there may have been
two Scissor-tails here. It was observed at various locations along
King Mill Rd. just east of US23/GA42, and was also observed constructing a nest in the arm of a power distribution structure
when subsequently observed by Earl Horn.
Scissor-tailed Flycatchers are listed as "Accidental to rare visitor
over most of state, 11 Oct (1962) - 30 Jun (1966)" in the Annotated
Checklist of Georgia Birds (1986), but since the Checklists
publication, Scissor-tails have been observed outside of those dates on
several occasions, including several nesting records.
As the season wore on, many observers reported that this pair of Scissor-tailed Flycatchers had raised three
young.
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