How to Use flycatcher in a Sentence

flycatcher

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  • The same study had found the structure in the eye of the least flycatcher as well.
    — Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2019
  • South Coast: There was a little blue heron, a sandwich tern and a willow flycatcher in Fairhaven.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • Without native trees, flycatchers were left to seek new nesting sites in tamarisks.
    — Washington Post, 26 July 2019
  • 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
  • At Great Meadows in Concord, a least bittern and an alder flycatcher were tallied.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2021
  • 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
  • Swainson's thrushes (the flutey sound of summer), olive-sided flycatchers, gray-cheeked thrushes and the thrush with the song that never gets old, the American robin.
    — Ned Rozell, Alaska Dispatch News, 22 July 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Also spotted were a least flycatcher, a veery, and an orchard oriole.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 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
  • Flycatchers are scarce everywhere, but the early common phoebe is no more.
    — Rachel Carson, The New Yorker, 1 Jan. 1950
  • Birders frequently flock to Lake Apopka to see cuckoos and cranes, flycatchers and finches, ducks and doves.
    — Stephen Hudak, OrlandoSentinel.com, 16 July 2017
  • Three least flycatchers in Williamstown and a willow flycatcher in Pittsfield.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Last week, there was an olive-sided flycatcher and a field sparrow at Tidmarsh Wildlife Sanctuary in Plymouth.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Wild orchids grow in profusion, and flycatchers build their cupped nests on low-hanging branches.
    — Peter Browne, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2019
  • In a series of studies in the 2000s, however, scientists in the Netherlands showed that many flycatchers were starting to miss this narrow window.
    — Author: Livia Albeck Ripka, Brad Plumer, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Observers also spotted a least bittern, a sora, and an alder flycatcher at Great Meadows Refuge in Concord.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2021
  • The flycatcher has also been seen in the surrounding area ofPaines Creek Beach, according to Facebook postings.
    — Eric Williams, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Mount Auburn Cemetery: Observers found an olive-sided flycatcher, a common raven, and an orchard oriole.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Delhiites are now spotting rare birds like gray hornbills and red-throated flycatchers.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 21 Apr. 2020

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