flycatcher

1. Any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing (synset 101558450)
   is a type of: oscine, oscine bird - passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus
   subtypes:

   • muscicapa grisola, muscicapa striata, spotted flycatcher - common European woodland flycatcher with greyish-brown plumage
   • thickhead, whistler - Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious whistling call
   belongs to: family muscicapidae, muscicapidae - Old World (true) flycatchers
   same as: old world flycatcher, true flycatcher
2. Large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing (synset 101550473)
   is a type of: tyrannid - a passerine bird of the suborder Tyranni
   subtypes:

   • kingbird, tyrannus tyrannus - large American flycatcher
   • contopus virens, peewee, peewit, pewee, pewit, wood pewee - small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America
   • phoebe, phoebe bird, sayornis phoebe - small dun-colored North American flycatcher
   • firebird, pyrocephalus rubinus mexicanus, vermillion flycatcher - tropical American flycatcher found as far north as southern Texas and Arizona; adult male has bright scarlet and black plumage
   • chatterer, cotinga - passerine bird of New World tropics
   • muscivora-forficata, scissortail, scissortailed flycatcher - grey flycatcher of the southwestern United States and Mexico and Central America having a long forked tail and white breast and salmon and scarlet markings
   belongs to: superfamily tyrannidae, tyrannidae - New World tyrant flycatchers most numerous in Central America and South America but also in the United States and Canada
   same as: new world flycatcher, tyrant bird, tyrant flycatcher

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