"In flight its long black-and-white tail scissor[s] ... and close[s] ... Its upper-parts ... [are] pale pearl-gray, its whitish underparts flushed with salmon pink ... Immature scissor-tails have short tails and resemble western kingbirds ..."

Picture taken with a Nikon D90, using a Nikon 300mm, f/4.5 manual focus lens.

October 14, 2010.