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Flycatcher

noun

Any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing. Synonyms: Old World flycatcher, true flycatcher.

Large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing. Synonyms: New World flycatcher, tyrant bird, tyrant flycatcher.

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"Flycatcher" Quotes from Famous Books

... States we find this cheerful bird, known as Pewee, Barn Pewee, Bridge Pewee, or Phoebe, or Pewit Flycatcher. "It is one of that charming coterie of the feathered tribe who cheer the abode of man with their presence." There are few farmyards without a pair of Pewees, who do the farmer much service by lessening the number of flies about the barn, and by calling ...

— Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. II, No 3, September 1897 • Various

Words linked to "Flycatcher" : oscine bird, true flycatcher, pewit, thickhead, Muscicapa striata, family Muscicapidae, phoebe, pewee, firebird, Tyrannus tyrannus, phoebe bird, Contopus virens, kingbird, vermillion flycatcher, Muscicapa grisola, peewee, scissortail, Muscivora-forficata, whistler, wood pewee, peewit, cotinga, oscine, Tyrannidae, tyrannid, superfamily Tyrannidae, chatterer, Pyrocephalus rubinus mexicanus, Sayornis phoebe, Muscicapidae, scissortailed flycatcher