flycatcher

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This flycatcher is a regular visitor in summer to Almora, where it nests.

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  1. noun Any of various Eurasian birds of the family Muscicapidae that feed on insects, usually catching the insects in flight.
  2. noun Any of various similar American birds of the family Tyrannidae. Also called tyrant flycatcher.

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  • Maybe, after all this was over, he could find useful employment on some post-apocalypse Second Level world as a flycatcher! —  Carr, John F, Kalvan Kingmaker (v1.0) (html).html
  • The nest of the great-crested flycatcher is seldom free from snake skins, three or four being sometimes woven into it About the thinnest, shallowest nest, for its situation, that can be found is that of the turtle-dove. —  A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.
  • This is the call of the grey-headed flycatcher (_Culicicapa ceylonensis_), a bird that visits the plains of northern India every winter. —  A Bird Calendar for Northern India
  • Mating hoopoes, however, perform strange antics in the air; they twist and turn and double, just as a flycatcher does when chasing a fleet insect. —  A Bird Calendar for Northern India
  • She is a very shy creature, and is rarely discovered actually sitting, because she leaves the nest with a little cry of alarm at the first sound of a human footfall May and June are the months in which to look for the nests of that superb bird--the paradise flycatcher (_Terpsiphone paradisi_). —  A Bird Calendar for Northern India
 

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/ˈflaɪkætʃər/
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