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Browse North American birds by shape—helpful if you don’t know exactly which type of bird you’ve seen.
- Warblers
Warblers - Bird Guide Browse by Shape - All About Birds
- Shorebirds
Shorebirds - Bird Guide Browse by Shape - All About Birds
- Chickadees
Chickadees - Bird Guide Browse by Shape - All About Birds
- Herons
Herons - Bird Guide Browse by Shape - All About Birds
- Blackbirds
Blackbirds - Bird Guide Browse by Shape - All About Birds
- Finches
Finches - Bird Guide Browse by Shape - All About Birds
- Ducks
Ducks - Bird Guide Browse by Shape - All About Birds
- Owls
Owls - Bird Guide Browse by Shape - All About Birds
- Warblers
Tyrant flycatcher. The tyrant flycatchers ( Tyrannidae) are a family of passerine birds which occur throughout North and South America. [1] They are considered the largest family of birds known to exist in the world, with more than 400 species. They are the most diverse avian family in every country in the Americas, except for the United States ...
flycatcher, any of a number of perching birds (order Passeriformes) that dart out to capture insects on the wing, particularly members of the Old World songbird family Muscicapidae and of the New World family Tyrannidae, which consists of the tyrant flycatchers. Many taxonomists expand the family Muscicapidae to include the thrushes, warblers, and babblers, treating the Old World flycatchers ...
One of our most familiar eastern flycatchers, the Eastern Phoebe’s raspy “phoebe” call is a frequent sound around yards and farms in spring and summer. These brown-and-white songbirds sit upright and wag their tails from prominent, low perches. They typically place their mud-and-grass nests in protected nooks on bridges, barns, and houses, which adds to the species’ familiarity to humans.
Old World flycatcher. The 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.
An attractive small flycatcher that looks like several other attractive small flycatchers in the genus Empidonax, the Western Flycatcher breeds in shaded forests of the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Coast mountain ranges. This petite olive-and-yellow species often inhabits canyons or ravines with flowing water, where there are gaps in the canopy. Here, the species forages mostly by flying out to ...
At a Glance. In dense leafy forests of the east, the Great Crested Flycatcher lives within the canopy of tall trees in summer. It is more easily heard than seen, its rolling calls echoing through the woods. The birder who pursues and sees the bird is likely to be impressed; this species is much more colorful than most flycatchers in the east.
