tyrannid

Definitions of tyrannid

1. noun

   a passerine bird of the suborder Tyranni
   types:

   New World flycatcher, flycatcher, tyrant bird, tyrant flycatcher

   large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing

   manakin

   any of numerous small bright-colored birds of Central America and South America having short bills and elaborate courtship behavior

   ovenbird

   small brownish South American birds that build oven-shaped clay nests

   ant bird, antbird

   any of various dull-colored South American birds that feeding on ants some following army ant swarms

   tree creeper, wood-creeper, woodcreeper, woodhewer

   any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers

   pitta

   any bird of the genus Pitta; brilliantly colored chiefly terrestrial birds with short wings and tail and stout bills

   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

   ant thrush

   a kind of antbird

   ant shrike

   antbirds superficially resembling shrikes

   Hylophylax naevioides, spotted antbird

   a kind of antbird

   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

   type of:

   passeriform bird, passerine

   perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch; most are songbirds; hatchlings are helpless