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I swore after the trio of Plains Forktails I wasn't going to post another tonight. But this one is too nice not to post.

Plains Forktail ♂ (Ischnura damula)
Jefferson County, Colorado
June 2024
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Perched male Plains Forktail on Colorado's Front Range Animal; Arthropod; Coenagrionidae; Colorado; Eukaryote; Forktails; Insect; Ischnura; Ischnura damula; Jefferson County; Odonata; Plains Forktail; Pond Damsels; USA; Zygoptera
January 8, 2025 at 2:04 AM
whatbirds.bsky.social
🌏 Sunda forktail (Enicurus velatus) #AsianBirds | #SundaForktail #Forktails #OldWorldFlycatchers #PerchingBirds 📷: Photo by Kanenori🦜 #birdsoftheworld #birds
🌏 Sunda forktail (Enicurus velatus) The Sunda forktail is a small, black, grey and white bird with a long, forked tail. It is found in Indonesia, specifically on the islands of Java and Sumatra. This bird is typically seen near fast-flowing streams in forested areas. Sunda forktails feed on insects and other invertebrates that they find in the water or on rocks near the water. Two subspecies are recognised. Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) 📷: Photo by Kanenori via Pixabay ONGS
January 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
amarhss.bsky.social
Slaty-backed Forktail (Enicurus schistaceus).
Another of our forktails, smartly dressed in black & white.
There is river in the highlands called “Sungei Burung” (bird river) to indicate their habitat.
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Black and white, slender bird with a very long forked tail (best seen in flight).
May 17, 2025 at 5:52 AM
barbchan.bsky.social
Chestnut-naped Forktail

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A Chestnut-naped Forktail bird standing on a large rock in the middle of a creek with head and tail raised.
June 22, 2026 at 3:21 PM
icephoto.bsky.social
I promise there were more than Plains Forktails on this day, but they were the dominant species at this site. I also had Familiar Bluets and Tule Bluets.

Plains Forktail ♀ (Ischnura damula)
Arapahoe County, Colorado
June 2024
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January 7, 2025 at 4:08 AM
sidiansonne.bsky.social
What are these damselflies doing, you might ask?

IT. THEY ARE DOING IT.

These look to be Rambur’s forktails. I took this over a decade ago in Austin, Texas, at Zilker Botanical Garden.

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#doingit
January 26, 2025 at 2:50 AM
kayontheprairie.bsky.social
Eastern Forktails in the wheel formation
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July 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
icephoto.bsky.social
Moving now into my shooting from June and into dragonfly and damselfly season.

Plains Forktail ♂ (Ischnura damula)
Arapahoe County, Colorado
June 2024
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#photography #MacroPhotography #Entomology #Damselfly
Perched male Plains Forktail on Colorado's Front Range. Animal; Arapahoe County; Arthropod; Coenagrionidae; Colorado; Eukaryote; Forktails; Insect; Ischnura; Ischnura damula; Odonata; Plains Forktail; Pond Damsels; USA; Zygoptera
January 7, 2025 at 3:39 AM
bird-photo-tours.bsky.social
Forktails are native to Asia, all characterized by their long “split” tail. There are 8 species globally, of which this image contains: 1) Slaty-backed 2) White-crowned 3) Spotted 4) Little and 5) Black-backed #BirdsSeenIn2026
July 1, 2026 at 9:13 AM
icephoto.bsky.social
Species variety is typically very narrow in June in Colorado, but quantities this past year were very good.

Plains Forktail ♂ (Ischnura damula)
Arapahoe County, Colorado
June 2024
Image 1815

#photography #MacroPhotography #Entomology #Damselfly
Perched male Plains Forktail on Colorado's Front Range. Animal; Arapahoe County; Arthropod; Coenagrionidae; Colorado; Eukaryote; Forktails; Insect; Ischnura; Ischnura damula; Odonata; Plains Forktail; Pond Damsels; USA; Zygoptera
January 7, 2025 at 3:50 AM
icephoto.bsky.social
Happy Sunday! Other tasks today but I did get in to process a single image. After finishing Sawhill/Walden Ponds, now it is Barr Lake SP and this damselfly.

Plains Forktail ♂ (Ischnura damula)
Adams County, Colorado
July 2024
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Perched male Plains Forktail on Colorado's Front Range. Adams County; Animal; Arthropod; Coenagrionidae; Colorado; Eukaryote; Forktails; Insect; Ischnura; Ischnura damula; Odonata; Plains Forktail; Pond Damsels; USA; Wetland; Zygoptera;
January 13, 2025 at 3:44 AM
jenny.cool
we ordered a pizza and are gonna cut some dudes in half and poke some forktails
June 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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@nocturnalthing.bsky.social is live on #Twitch playing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
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Yen, mind telling me what you plan to do with all those forktails? | Streaming the witcher 3: wild hunt.
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July 29, 2026 at 4:28 AM
athena42.bsky.social
Long travelling day, from warm lowlands at 750m asl, chilly lunch at 3700m, now at 3000m asl. Waterfalls & little forktails up to Thrumsingla (pass), then 3 species of pheasant - 14 blood pheasants (some great views, photo from Merlin again), 7 satyr tragopans (most tricky/brief) & 1 female monal
April 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
petnoodle.bsky.social
Forktails (or bluetails: genus Ischnura) are tiny threadlike #damselflies. It looks like the earliest species evolved in Australasia in the lower Miocene (?), & in that time have spread through most of the rest of the world: fantastic.
(photo & species info in alt text)
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Citrine Forktail (Ischnura hastata), taken at Wheaton Regional Park, outside of Washington, DC (USA). An insect that is tiny and thin, max 27 mm/~ 1 inch - like a grass seed or plant filament. The abdomen is yellow with black spots and the thorax and head are green and black. It's clinging to a dead brown stem. The background is blurry vegetation and something that's maybe a blurry white flower
January 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
petnoodle.bsky.social
Thank you! I love forktails, and have never seen this species
January 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
tylathemachine.bsky.social
Wow awesome, where are they found? The only ones I find are jewelling damselflies and forktails
June 8, 2026 at 4:03 PM
petnoodle.bsky.social
Thank you, looking forward to reading that!

Reminds me that I took this photo of two identical Rambur's forktails in copula in Mexico a few years ago... the one on the bottom is a male-mimic female
Two damselflies in copulatory wheel. Both are identical, with black heads with tiny blue eyespots, green and black thorax and abdomen, and blue abdomen tips
June 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
petnoodle.bsky.social
Thank you! I love Forktails, but they're so small that they can be hard to photograph (or even find in the first place!)
March 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
abqgnu.bsky.social
Considering there are forktails and all sorts of flying terrors that delight in feasting on succulent tiny goats in the area, yes. Very.
November 24, 2024 at 4:38 PM
azuredragon17.bsky.social
Okay, one powered up magic box! This oughta get yen off Lambert's back.

Next up is helping my ol buddy eskel hunt some forktails. He already went ahead so I'll have to track him down
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November 5, 2025 at 6:58 AM
humberarb.bsky.social
After looking at dragonflies yesterday for Insectopia week, we can't forget about our damselflies!

Those IDs are trickier, and we've had lot of damselflies observed in the Arb who are recorded on iNaturalist only as Bluets, Dancers, or Forktails:

www.inaturalist.org/observations...

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humberarb.bsky.social Humber Arboretum @humberarb.bsky.social · Aug 5
It's Insectopia week at Nature Camp, so we thought that here on Bluesky we'd also take a look at some of the insects and other invertebrates who have been uploaded to our @inaturalist.bsky.social collection project, the Humber Arboretum Atlas:
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Help us chronicle the diversity of life at the Humber Arboretum. How many species can be found within this urban green space? Observations made within the Arb are automatically added to this project, ...
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August 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
rockstarfreddy.bsky.social
2657 Cosmological decades at Sunda forktails
August 15, 2026 at 5:16 PM
flakefood.bsky.social
Aquariums: One of our Rainbow Forktails won’t stop eating.

https://www.flakefood.com/886800/aquariums-one-of-our-rainbow-forktails-wont-stop-eating/

Hey guys, we're struggling with one of our Rainbow Forktails. We only have females in the tank, and this one has developed an obsession (is it …
Aquariums: One of our Rainbow Forktails won't stop eating. - Flake Food
Hey guys, we're struggling with one of our Rainbow Forktails. We only have females in the tank, and this one has developed an obsession (is it stress
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July 22, 2026 at 2:20 AM
shendrich.bsky.social
Pacific forktails,
often outnumbered, gems in
the deep marshland grass.
Black damselfly, turquoise dots on eyes, green eye edge, 4 turquoise dots on top of thorax, turquoise thorax side and tail tip, wings tucked along body, on a green stem, green grass blade background
July 19, 2026 at 1:09 PM