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Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

Tyrannus forficatus

A summer resident that nests in Louisiana. Found in 30 of 64 parishes, across 2 habitats.

Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
30 of 64 parishes
Habitats
2

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
30 of 64 parishes
Habitats
2
Habitat models
Summer

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in Louisiana 2

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 2

Prairies and grasslands

Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies.

SummerWest Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie; Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

SummerDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Ruderal Upland - Old Field
Other habitats in its models (30)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana.

  • Developed, Low Intensity Summer.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Summer.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Summer.
  • Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • Tamaulipan Mesquite Upland Scrub Summer.
  • Tamaulipan Calcareous Thornscrub Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Summer.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer.
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Summer.
  • Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
  • Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
  • Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
  • South Texas Sand Sheet Grassland Summer.
  • Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
  • Recently Logged Areas Summer.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer.
  • Recently Burned Summer.
  • Recently Burned Forest Summer.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
  • Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

  • Summer: nests here, in 30 of 64 parishes.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 151

Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Louisiana. Shared habitat, not food.

Wildlife 176

Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Louisiana. Not sighting records.

NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources