Flycatcher

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Flycatcher may refer to:

Birds

Major flycatcher families

• Old World flycatchers, Muscicapidae
• Tyrant flycatchers, Tyrannidae

Minor flycatcher families

• Fairy flycatchers, Stenostiridae
• Monarch flycatchers, Monarchidae
• Silky-flycatchers, Ptiliogonatidae
• Yellow flycatchers, Erythrocercidae

Other birds known as flycatchers

• 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^[1]

Other uses

• 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
• Flycatcher (radar), short-range air defense fire control system
• Fly-killing device
• HMS Flycatcher, former UK military base
• The Frog Prince, fairy tale, some of whose versions are dubbed "Flycatcher"

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