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Bookmark or Share- The Flycatcher Bird Family: Midair Masters - Birds and BloomsFlycatching has a particular meaning in the world of birds: perching in one spot to watch for flying insects, swooping out to catch them in midair and then returning to the perch. And members of the flycatcher bird family are masters of this behavior.
- Yes, You Can Identify Flycatchers. These New Field Guides Are Sure of ...Flycatchers proved perfect muses—and Lee and Birch insist that with the right technique, even beginning birders can learn to ID the enigmatic insect-eaters. (Yes, really!)
- Old World flycatcher - WikipediaThe Old World flycatchers are a large family, the Muscicapidae, of small passerine birds restricted to the Old World (Europe, Africa and Asia), with the exception of several vagrants and two species, bluethroat (Luscinia svecica) and northern wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe), found also in North America.
- Field Guide for all the Birds of North AmericaThere are close to twenty species of native flycatchers seen in North America and this does not include the kingbirds, kiskadee, pewee, wood-pewees, phoebes or the tyrannulet. The largest concentration of these different types of birds are in the southern US states.
- Great Crested Flycatcher Identification - All About BirdsA large, assertive flycatcher with rich reddish-brown accents and a lemon-yellow belly, the Great Crested Flycatcher is a common bird of Eastern woodlands. Its habit of hunting high in the canopy means it’s not particularly conspicuous—until you learn its very distinctive call, an emphatic rising whistle.
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