Downtown Oklahoma City's MAPS 3 downtown park will be known as Scissortail Park.

The name was revealed Thursday at a ceremony marking the start of park construction.

Children wearing white T-shirts, each with a letter, lined up to spell out the name before dozens of elected and civic leaders, and others, gathered at the foot of Skydance bridge for the groundbreaking.

The scissor-tailed flycatcher is the state bird of Oklahoma and inspiration for the Skydance bridge, which will connect the upper and lower sections of the $138 million, 68-acre park.

Construction of the 37-acre upper park began this month.

Against a backdrop of children flying kites and tossing frisbees, Mayor Mick Cornett envisioned the park serving generations to come, with each succeeding generation re-imagining the space, for its time and place in the unfolding history of the city.

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