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Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, Tyrannus forficatus.
March 28 to November 2. Common summer resident in open farmlands and large open fields where there are scattered trees, tall powerpoles, or other structures which provide suitable perches and nest sites. Most common in western part of the region.

Western Kingbird, Tyrannus verticalis.
May 3 to June 7. Rare spring transient, with five records on file. The June record seems to have involved a late transient, since the bird was found only this one time in a location that was visited daily.

Eastern Kingbird, Tyrannus tyrannus.
April 3 to September 29. Common migrant and summer resident. Large flocks pass through the region during spring and fall. A flock of 50 observed at Durham in Washington County on May 11, 1985, remained in the area for several days, apparently attracted by an emergence of the 13 year periodical cicada (Magicicada species). Flocks numbering in the hundreds of birds have been seen going to roost in willow trees on the edge of Lake Sequoyah during August and early September. The presence of kingbird roosts in this location seem to be related to emergences of mayflies (Ephemerida species). The bird seen September 29, 1984, was foraging with a flock of 30 Scissor-tailed Flycatchers.