flycatcher
IPA: fɫˈaɪkætʃɝ
noun
- Any of many kinds of birds of the family Muscicapidae, of Africa, Europe, and Asia, that catch insects in flight; an Old World flycatcher.
- Any of many kinds of similar birds of various families, such as Tyrannidae (the New World flycatchers of the Americas), Tityridae, Stenostiridae, Monarchidae, Petroicidae, etc.
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Examples of "flycatcher" in Sentences
- The flycatcher has no subspecies.
- It is a medium sized tyrant flycatcher.
- It is an upright long tailed flycatcher.
- They belong to the tyrant flycatcher family.
- It is a large upright long tailed flycatcher.
- The last sighting of the flycatcher was in 1983.
- There is a breeding population of pied flycatcher.
- Several species of paradise flycatcher are migratory.
- This nocturnal insectivore hunts from a perch like a shrike or flycatcher.
- For 20 minutes, we stood by a swampy pond, trying to home in on a small fluttering piratic flycatcher in the brambles.
- It turns out that a charismatic endangered bird — the southwestern willow flycatcher — is known to nest in the offending shrubs.
- A short distance up the cañon of the west branch of Clear Creek, a new kind of flycatcher was first heard, and presently seen with my glass.
- Last March, the Center for Biological Diversity sued the government, charging that indiscriminately killing tamarisks jeopardizes the flycatcher
- I have to admit that I don’t know what kind of flycatcher they are although they’ve raised many clutches either on the shutter or in a nest a foot away from the back door.
- Sure, some birds have names that describe their activities, such as flycatcher, or gnatcatcher, or their general appearance, such as bluebird, or the place they tend to loiter, such as cowbird.
- Scissor-tailed flycatcher, Tyrannus forficatus fomerly, Milvulus forficatus; protonym, Muscivora forficata, also known as the Texas bird-of-paradise and the swallow-tailed flycatcher, photographed at Manhattan, Kansas.
- Response: This is an adult scissor-tailed flycatcher, Tyrannus forficatus, a member of the genus Tyrannus, so named for their pugnacious nature when defending their territories against marauding crows and other, even larger, predators.
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