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5 unusual facts about flycatcher


Citrine Canary-flycatcher

The Citrine Canary-flycatcher (Culicicapa helianthea) is a species of bird in the Stenostiridae family.

Pavonine Cuckoo

The details of its breeding biology are little known except for a short list of known host species which incliudes Drab-breasted Bamboo Tyrant, Ochre-faced Tody-Flycatcher, Eared Pygmy Tyrant and Plain Antvireo.

Silky-flycatcher

They were formerly lumped with waxwings and Hypocolius in the family Bombycillidae, and they are listed in that family by the Sibley-Monroe checklist.

Spotted Tody-Flycatcher

The Spotted Tody-Flycatcher is a bird of the Amazon Basin and in the east the neighboring Araguaia River of the Araguaia-Tocantins River drainage.

Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher

The range of the Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher is mainly in the southern Amazon Basin, and in the east limited by the Amazon River; in the southeast, its range extends eastward including Ilha de Marajo and the last downstream region of only the Tocantins River, of the Araguaia-Tocantins River system.


AAC Middle Wallop

HMS Flycatcher the HQ for the Mobile Naval Air Base organization then moved in from RNAS Ludham, which reverted to RAF use.

Acadian Flycatcher

The present-day "Acadian Flycatcher" is not found in Acadia.

Annobón Paradise Flycatcher

Some authorities, notably the African Bird Club treat Annobón Paradise Flycatcher as a subspecies of Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher T.

Australian Owlet-nightjar

The Australian Owlet-nightjar feeds at night by diving from perches and snatching insects from the air, ground or off trunks and branches, in the manner of a flycatcher.

Blue-throated Blue Flycatcher

The Blue-Throated Flycatcher is found much of the Indian Subcontinent, all through the Himalayas, the plains and Western Ghats of India in the cold months, and also extends eastwards into Bangladesh, and to Arakan and the Tenasserim Hills in Myanmar.

Fiscal Flycatcher

The Fiscal Flycatcher is larger than the male Collared Flycatcher, which has a white collar and lacks white wing panels.

Japanese Paradise Flycatcher

The Japanese Paradise-flycatcher is similar in appearance to the Asian Paradise Flycatcher but slightly smaller.

Narcissus Flycatcher

F. (n.) elisae, increasingly separated as Chinese Flycatcher or Green-backed Flycatcher (Ficedula elisae, Weigold, 1922), breeding endemic to northeast China, wintering south to Vietnam and Malaysia, breeding males lack a bold supercilium, have an olive-green crown, and mantle instead of black, and lemon-yellow underparts

Paperbark Flycatcher

In Australia the Paperbark Flycatcher inhabits tropical eucalypt woodlands, paperbark woodlands and dry riverine woodlands.

Southern Emu-wren

It described as the "Soft-tailed Flycatcher", native name Mur-re-a-nera when painted between 1788 and 1797 by Thomas Watling, one of a group known collectively as the Port Jackson Painter.

Thomas Stewart Traill

Audubon named the Traill's Flycatcher after him, which at one time referred to a species which included both the Willow Flycatcher (Empidonax traillii) and the Alder Flycatcher (Empidonax alnorum).

White-tailed Blue Flycatcher

The White-tailed Blue Flycatcher (Elminia albicauda) is a species of bird in the Stenostiridae family.


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