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- noun Plural form of
flycatcher .
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Examples
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Many birds, such as flycatchers and warblers feed upon native pollinators and time their spring migration to follow flowering plants and their pollinators northward.
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The wheatear is one of more than a dozen kinds of migrant songbird, including flycatchers, chats and warblers, which pass through our parish at this time of year.
Birdwatch: Wheatear 2011
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A covey of startled vermilion flycatchers rise from a grove of gnarled mesquite as he pulls close to the trees and stops the truck.
One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010
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Just think: no more hassles with silent Empidonax flycatchers!
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The flycatchers who raised a brood in a nest under our bridge have now fledged them out and the nest is vacant.
The insects come for our intrepid blogger and his husband. Will 2009
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And can pine flycatchers catch fly balls in the outfield?
bird randomness 2009
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Over 200 species of birds have been observed, including many species of warblers, flycatchers and other migratory songbirds.
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And can pine flycatchers catch fly balls in the outfield?
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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Yet among collared flycatchers this does not appear to be the case.
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The flycatchers who raised a brood in a nest under our bridge have now fledged them out and the nest is vacant.
Archive 2009-07-01 Will 2009
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