Flycatcher
Appearance
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Flycatcher may refer to:
Birds
[edit]Major flycatcher families
[edit]- Old World flycatchers, Muscicapidae
- Tyrant flycatchers, Tyrannidae
Minor flycatcher families
[edit]- Fairy flycatchers, Stenostiridae
- Monarch flycatchers, Monarchidae
- Silky-flycatchers, Ptiliogonatidae
- Yellow flycatchers, Erythrocercidae
Other birds known as flycatchers
[edit]- Flycatcher thrushes or Rufous thrushes, in the thrush family Turdidae
- Flycatchers or flyrobins, in the Australasian robin family Petroicidae
- Bearded flycatchers or Myiobius, in the passerine family Tityridae
- Dohrn's flycatcher or Dohrn's thrush-babbler, in the warbler genus Sylvia
Other uses
[edit]- HMS Flycatcher, a former UK military base.
- Fly-killing device
- Flycatcher (comics), a character in the Vertigo comic book Fables
- Flycatcher (radar), a short range air defense fire control system
- Fairey Flycatcher, a British fighter aircraft of the 1920s–1930s
- "The Frog Prince", a fairy tale, some of whose versions are dubbed "Flycatcher"