16-673: [REDACTED] Look up flycatcher in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Flycatcher may refer to: Birds [ edit ] Major flycatcher families [ edit ] Old World flycatchers , Muscicapidae Tyrant flycatchers , Tyrannidae Minor flycatcher families [ edit ] Fairy flycatchers , Stenostiridae Monarch flycatchers , Monarchidae Silky-flycatchers , Ptiliogonatidae Yellow flycatchers , Erythrocercidae Other birds known as flycatchers [ edit ] Flycatcher thrushes or Rufous thrushes , in
32-598: 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. These are mainly small arboreal insectivores , many of which, as the name implies, take their prey on the wing. The family
48-625: Is relatively large and includes 357 species, which are divided into 54 genera . The name Muscicapa for the family was introduced by the Scottish naturalist John Fleming in 1822. The word had earlier been used for the genus Muscicapa by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760. Muscicapa comes from the Latin musca meaning a fly, and capere to catch. In 1910,
64-478: 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" Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
80-423: 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" Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
96-466: The 42 Muscicapini species, confirmed that the genera were non-monophyletic and proposed a reorganised arrangement of the species with several new or resurrected genera. The International Ornithologists' Union recognises 357 species and divides the family into 54 genera. Subdivisions have been proposed by Sangster et al (2010). For a complete list of species, see " List of Old World flycatcher species ". Family Muscicapidae The cladogram below
112-680: The American ornithologists Ernst Mayr and Dean Amadon in an article published in 1951. Their large family, Muscicapidae, which they termed the "primitive insect eaters" contained 1460 species divided into eight subfamilies. The use of the extended group was endorsed by a committee set up following the Eleventh International Ornithological Congress held in Basel in 1954. Subsequent DNA–DNA hybridization studies by Charles Sibley and others showed that
128-461: The German ornithologist Ernst Hartert found it impossible to define boundaries between the three families Muscicapidae, Sylviidae (Old World warblers) and Turdidae (thrushes). He therefore treated them as subfamilies of an extended flycatcher family that also included Timaliidae (Old World babblers) and Monarchidae (Monarch flycatchers). Forty years later, a similar arrangement was adopted by
144-598: The 💕 [REDACTED] Look up flycatcher in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Flycatcher may refer to: Birds [ edit ] Major flycatcher families [ edit ] Old World flycatchers , Muscicapidae Tyrant flycatchers , Tyrannidae Minor flycatcher families [ edit ] Fairy flycatchers , Stenostiridae Monarch flycatchers , Monarchidae Silky-flycatchers , Ptiliogonatidae Yellow flycatchers , Erythrocercidae Other birds known as flycatchers [ edit ] Flycatcher thrushes or Rufous thrushes , in
160-619: The genus Cochoa which was previously placed in Muscicapidae has been shown to belong in Turdidae. Two large molecular phylogenetic studies of species within Muscicapidae published in 2010 showed that the genera Fraseria , Melaenornis and Muscicapa were non-monophyletic . The authors were unable to propose revised genera as not all the species were sampled and not all the nodes in their phylogenies were strongly supported. A subsequent study published in 2016, that included 37 of
176-574: The subfamilies were not closely related to one another. As a result, the large group was broken up into a number of separate families, although for a while most authorities continued to retain the thrushes in Muscicapidae. In 1998 the American Ornithologists' Union chose to treat the thrushes as a separate family in the seventh edition of their Check-list of North American birds and subsequently most authors have followed their example. The family formerly included fewer species. At
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#1732788023707192-557: 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 Other uses [ edit ] Cephalotus follicularis , also known as the Australian flycatcher plant or pitcher plant Fairey Flycatcher , British fighter aircraft of
208-437: 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 Other uses [ edit ] Cephalotus follicularis , also known as the Australian flycatcher plant or pitcher plant Fairey Flycatcher , British fighter aircraft of
224-569: The time of the publication of the third edition of Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World in 2003, the genera Myophonus , Alethe , Brachypteryx and Monticola were included in the thrush family Turdidae . Subsequent molecular phylogenetic studies have shown that the species in these four genera are more closely related to species in Muscicapidae. As a consequence, these four genera are now placed here. In contrast,
240-509: The title Flycatcher . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Flycatcher&oldid=1258326622 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Animal common name disambiguation pages flycatcher From Misplaced Pages,
256-545: The title Flycatcher . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Flycatcher&oldid=1258326622 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Animal common name disambiguation pages Old World flycatcher See text The Old World flycatchers are
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