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One
sunny afternoon, a pair of Cassin's kingbirds sat on the wire above my
back yard for
a considerable length of time. They carried on a lengthy
conversation using quite a variety of sounds. Cassin's kingbird
looks very much like the less common, in this area, tropical
kingbird. the key difference is a notch in the tail of the
tropical species.
Like other kingbirds,
Cassin's kingbird likes a high perch to watch for passing
insects. On this bird you can see the thin white band on the end
of the tail.
The kingbird will fly a loop out to
capture flying prey and return to the same perch to waite for another.
[Taxonomy
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