单词 | tyrant flycatcher |
释义 | tyrant flycatcher (once / 492472 pages) n WORD FAMILY tyrant flycatcher: tyrant flycatchers USAGE EXAMPLESBecause some Kings are tyrants I suppose, they call me the Tyrant Flycatcher. Various, Birds, Illustrated by Color Photogr...(2010) This common Tyrant Flycatcher is very abundant in the eastern parts of its range. Reed, Chester A. (Chester Albert), The Bird Book—Illustrating in natu...(2010) But the most conspicuous birds I saw were members of the family of tyrant flycatchers, of which our own king-bird is the most familiar example. Roosevelt, Theodore, Through the Brazilian Wilderness(2010) n large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing Syn|Hypo|Hyper New World flycatcher, flycatcher, tyrant bird Tyrannus tyrannus, kingbird large American flycatcher Contopus virens, peewee, peewit, pewee, pewit, wood peweesmall olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America Sayornis phoebe, phoebe, phoebe birdsmall dun-colored North American flycatcher Pyrocephalus rubinus mexicanus, firebird, vermillion flycatchertropical American flycatcher found as far north as southern Texas and Arizona; adult male has bright scarlet and black plumage chatterer, cotingapasserine bird of New World tropics Muscivora-forficata, scissortail, scissortailed flycatchergrey flycatcher of the southwestern United States and Mexico and Central America having a long forked tail and white breast and salmon and scarlet markings Arkansas kingbird, western kingbirda kingbird seen in western United States; head and back are pale grey and the breast is yellowish and the tail is black Cassin's kingbird, Tyrannus vociferansa kingbird seen in the southwestern United States; largely grey with a yellow abdomen eastern kingbirda kingbird that breeds in North America and winters in tropical America; distinguished by a white band on the tip of the tail Tyrannus domenicensis domenicensis, gray kingbird, grey kingbird, petcharya kingbird that breeds in the southeastern United States and winters in tropical America; similar to but larger than the eastern kingbird Contopus sordidulus, western wood peweesmall flycatcher of western North America Rupicola rupicola, cock of the rocktropical bird of northern South America the male having brilliant red or orange plumage and an erectile disklike crest Rupicola peruviana, cock of the rockbird of the Andes similar to Rupicola rupicola bellbirdany of several tropical American birds of the genus Procnias having a bell-like call Cephalopterus ornatus, umbrella birdblack tropical American bird having a large overhanging crest and long feathered wattle tyrannid a passerine bird of the suborder Tyranni |
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