Scissor-tailed flycatcher

The FAA database contains 455 filed wildlife-strike reports naming Scissor-tailed flycatcher across 42 airports; damage was indicated in 0.2% and engine ingestion in 0.7%. These are report-level shares, not flight probabilities.

Source: FAA National Wildlife Strike Database · Named-subject cohort · Snapshot September 16, 2026

Filed reports4551990–export

Airports represented42distinct airport IDs

Damage indicated0.2%of filed reports

Engine ingestion0.7%of filed reports

Damage-indicated reports1FAA report field

Serious / destroyed0FAA S or D level

Effect on flight7effect supplied

Reported cost$746inflation-adjusted supplied values

02 / YEAR LOG

Scissor-tailed flycatcher: 2016–2025 reporting record

Scissor-tailed flycatcher has 10 complete-year cohorts from 2016 through 2025, totaling 251 filed reports in the annual series.

201615 · 0.0% damage

20176 · 0.0% damage

201816 · 0.0% damage

201920 · 0.0% damage

202020 · 0.0% damage

202130 · 0.0% damage

202232 · 0.0% damage

202345 · 0.0% damage

202443 · 0.0% damage

202524 · 0.0% damage

03 / SEASON

Scissor-tailed flycatcher: 2021–2025 by month

Scissor-tailed flycatcher appears in 174 filed reports from 2021–2025 with an incident month, distributed across the 12 calendar months.

Jan0

Feb1

Mar1

Apr6

May21

Jun14

Jul39

Aug63

Sep22

Oct7

Nov0

Dec0

04 / AIRPORT RECORDS

Scissor-tailed flycatcher: published airport records

Scissor-tailed flycatcher has 13 published airport combinations representing 387 filed reports that met the publication threshold.