tyrant flycatcher
Noun
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Large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing (synset 101550473)
is a type of: tyrannid - a passerine bird of the suborder Tyrannisubtypes:
- 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
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