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Flycatcher   /flˈaɪkˌætʃər/   Listen
Flycatcher

noun
1.
Any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing.  Synonyms: Old World flycatcher, true flycatcher.
2.
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



... The least flycatcher, the kingbird, the cedar-bird, the goldfinch, the indigo-bird, are all fine nest-builders, each with a ...
— Under the Maples • John Burroughs

... phrases of the orchard oriole fell on the ear like a shower of "liquid pearls." No other songster save the vireo is so prodigal of his minstrelsy. Occasionally we caught the loud, querulous notes of the great crested flycatcher. Maryland yellow throats sang, "witchery, witchery, witchery" down among the bushy fence rows. Wren notes fell like silvery drops of water through the sunlit air, and redstarts made the place ring with their rich clear notes. Nature here was throbbing with warm, full life, gleaming with rich ...
— See America First • Orville O. Hiestand

... Blackburnian Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Hooded Warbler Golden-winged Warbler Connecticut Warbler Mourning Warbler Canadian Warbler Blue-winged Warbler Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Ipswich Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Olive-sided Flycatcher Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Loggerhead Shrike Purple Martin Cow Bird Pine Warbler Kentucky Warbler Nashville Warbler Parula Warbler Cape May Warbler Yellow Warbler Black-poll Warbler ...
— New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 - Report of the New York State Commission • DeLancey M. Ellis



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



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