New World flycatcher

Definitions of New World flycatcher

1. noun

   large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing
   synonyms: flycatcher, tyrant bird, tyrant flycatcher

   types:

   Tyrannus tyrannus, kingbird

   large American flycatcher

   Contopus virens, peewee, peewit, pewee, pewit, wood pewee

   small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America

   Sayornis phoebe, phoebe, phoebe bird

   small dun-colored North American flycatcher

   Pyrocephalus rubinus mexicanus, firebird, vermillion flycatcher

   tropical American flycatcher found as far north as southern Texas and Arizona; adult male has bright scarlet and black plumage

   chatterer, cotinga

   passerine bird of New World tropics

   Muscivora-forficata, scissortail, scissortailed flycatcher

   grey flycatcher of the southwestern United States and Mexico and Central America having a long forked tail and white breast and salmon and scarlet markings

   Arkansas kingbird, western kingbird

   a kingbird seen in western United States; head and back are pale grey and the breast is yellowish and the tail is black

   Cassin's kingbird, Tyrannus vociferans

   a kingbird seen in the southwestern United States; largely grey with a yellow abdomen

   eastern kingbird

   a kingbird that breeds in North America and winters in tropical America; distinguished by a white band on the tip of the tail

   Tyrannus domenicensis domenicensis, gray kingbird, grey kingbird, petchary

   a kingbird that breeds in the southeastern United States and winters in tropical America; similar to but larger than the eastern kingbird

   Contopus sordidulus, western wood pewee

   small flycatcher of western North America

   Rupicola rupicola, cock of the rock

   tropical bird of northern South America the male having brilliant red or orange plumage and an erectile disklike crest

   Rupicola peruviana, cock of the rock

   bird of the Andes similar to Rupicola rupicola

   bellbird

   any of several tropical American birds of the genus Procnias having a bell-like call

   Cephalopterus ornatus, umbrella bird

   black tropical American bird having a large overhanging crest and long feathered wattle

   type of:

   tyrannid

   a passerine bird of the suborder Tyranni