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They are small to medium birds, ranging from 9 to 22 cm in length. [26] Many species are dull brown in colour, but the plumage of some can be much brighter, especially in the males. [27] Most have broad, flattened bills suited to catching insects in flight, although the few ground-foraging species typically have finer bills. [28]
Most species are rather plain, with various hues of brown, gray and white commonplace, often providing some degree of presumed camouflage.Obvious exceptions include the bright red vermilion flycatcher, blue, black, white and yellow many-colored rush-tyrant and some species of tody-flycatchers or tyrants, which are often yellow, black, white and/or rufous, from the Todirostrum, Hemitriccus and ...
American gray flycatchers are small birds, but larger than most Empidonax flycatchers. A typical adult measures 15 cm (5.9 in) in length, 22 cm (8.7 in) in wingspan, and 12.5 g (0.44 oz) in mass. [2] Adults have pale gray upperparts, darker on the wings and tail, with a faint olive tinge after molting in fall.
Cephalotus follicularis, also known as the Australian flycatcher plant or pitcher plant; Fairey Flycatcher, British fighter aircraft of the 1920s–1930s; Flycatcher (comics), character in the Vertigo comic book Fables
The western flycatcher was recognized as a single species until 1989, when the American Ornithologists’ Union split it into two different species: the Pacific-slope flycatcher (E. difficilis) of coastal western North America and parts of the western Rocky Mountains, and the Cordilleran flycatcher (E. occidentalis) of the interior Rocky Mountains, with both species wintering in Mexico.
European pied flycatchers, 2010 in Texel, Netherlands. The European pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. One of the four species of Western Palearctic black-and-white flycatchers, it hybridizes to a limited extent with the collared flycatcher. [3]
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The scissor-tailed flycatcher (Tyrannus forficatus), known as swallow-tailed flycatcher or scissorstail, is a long-tailed insectivorous bird of the genus Tyrannus, whose members are collectively referred to as kingbirds. Its scientific name used to be Muscivora forficata until it was changed to Tyrannus forficatus.