How to Use flycatcher in a Sentence

flycatcher

noun
  • The same study had found the structure in the eye of the least flycatcher as well.
    — Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2019
  • Without native trees, flycatchers were left to seek new nesting sites in tamarisks.
    — Washington Post, 26 July 2019
  • The bird’s name, vermilion flycatcher, might give you some clue as to its beauty.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Dec. 2025
  • By timing this just right, the flycatchers ensure there’s enough food around when their hungry chicks hatch.
    — New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
  • By timing this just right, the flycatchers ensure there's enough food around when their hungry chicks hatch.
    — Author: Livia Albeck Ripka, Brad Plumer, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2018
  • There has been one special little bird there for the past couple of weeks, a willow flycatcher.
    — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 13 June 2018
  • This is a tiny gray flycatcher, obviously not easy to find, hence the sudden alert.
    — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 8 Sep. 2020
  • While no longer rare, the colorful flycatcher is not yet abundant, but worth the effort to try and spot.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Dec. 2025
  • Also spotted were a least flycatcher, a veery, and an orchard oriole.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2018
  • Flycatchers are scarce everywhere, but the early common phoebe is no more.
    — Rachel Carson, The New Yorker, 1 Jan. 1950
  • For instance, the researchers heard a bird called the least flycatcher on the plot for the last time in 1994.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Bailey explains that certain birds, like wrens, tree swallows, and great crested flycatchers, will nest in gourds.
    — Brandi Fuller, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 May 2023
  • Local breeding birds such as wood thrushes, great crested flycatchers, red-eyed vireos and summer tanagers will be here in a few days.
    — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Three least flycatchers in Williamstown and a willow flycatcher in Pittsfield.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2022
  • At Great Meadows in Concord, a least bittern and an alder flycatcher were tallied.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2021
  • Rather than chasing their prey in flight like many other birds, Acadian flycatchers prefer to ambush insects from a perch.
    — Jim Daley, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2019
  • If their original habitat isn’t restored, the gains wildlife managers have had with flycatchers over the past decade or two could be erased, Beatty said.
    — Washington Post, 26 July 2019
  • Cattle tyrants are medium-sized flycatchers with light yellow belly feathers, olive-brown back feathers and grayish crown feathers.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2023
  • As if to underscore that point, during his visit to the volcano Franklin spotted an olive-sided flycatcher, a species rare in the deep woods.
    — Warren Cornwall, Science | AAAS, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Birders frequently flock to Lake Apopka to see cuckoos and cranes, flycatchers and finches, ducks and doves.
    — Stephen Hudak, OrlandoSentinel.com, 16 July 2017
  • During a hike in the Ramona Grasslands, the flaming red of a vermilion flycatcher flashed as the bird moved from one tree to another.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
  • In addition to flycatchers, shrikes and some owls, bird species commonly trapped include bluebirds, woodpeckers, sparrows, and kestrels.
    — Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The songbirds are on schedule, though the thrushes and flycatchers, normally bug-eaters, are making their living in the blueberry patches with last year's crop.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 10 June 2018
  • Above, an alder flycatcher sings its two-note song, having just arrived from the Gulf Coast of Mexico to perch on northern branches.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2021
  • Cavity nesting birds, such as bluebirds, chickadees, flycatchers, nuthatches, trogons, and wrens as well as some duck species, use birdhouses or nest boxes.
    — Lauren David, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Sightings included a willow flycatcher, a white-eyed vireo, a cliff swallow, two purple martins, and two Northern parulas.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2021
  • The Guam flycatcher, the Caribbean monk seal, and the blackfin cisco are now completely extinct from our planet.
    — Josh Linkner, Detroit Free Press, 1 Apr. 2018
  • There was the Hammond's flycatcher from Honduras, squeaking out its song in an aspen near the Bicycle Bumps.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2018
  • Last week, there was an olive-sided flycatcher and a field sparrow at Tidmarsh Wildlife Sanctuary in Plymouth.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Their dense foliage and flexible branches create perfect nesting sites for goldfinches, yellow warblers, and willow flycatchers.
    — Anne Readel, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Feb. 2026

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