Flycatcher may refer to:

Birds

Major flycatcher families

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 north ...

s, Muscicapidae *

Tyrant flycatcher The tyrant flycatchers (Tyrannidae) comprise a family of passerine birds which is found virtually throughout North and South America. It is the world's largest family of birds, with more than 400 species, and is the most diverse avian family i ...

s, Tyrannidae

Minor flycatcher families

* Fairy flycatchers, Stenostiridae *

Monarch flycatcher The monarchs or monarch flycatchers (family Monarchidae) comprise a family of over 100 passerine birds which includes shrikebills, paradise flycatchers, and Grallina, magpie-larks. Monarchids are small insectivore, insectivorous songbirds with l ...

s, Monarchidae *

Silky-flycatcher The silky-flycatchers are a small family, Ptiliogonatidae, of passerine birds. The family contains only four species in three genera. They were formerly lumped with waxwings and hypocolius in the family Bombycillidae, and they are listed in that ...

s, Ptiliogonatidae * Yellow flycatchers, Erythrocercidae

Other birds known as flycatchers

* Flycatcher thrushes or Rufous thrushes, in the thrush family Turdidae * Flycatchers or flyrobins, in the Australasian robin family Petroicidae * Bearded flycatchers or

Myiobius ''Myiobius'' is a genus of passerine birds in the family Onychorhynchidae. The genus was previously considered to belong to the Tyrannidae or Tityridae. The genus ''Myiobius'' was erected in 1839 by George Robert Gray in the section on birds in ...

, in the passerine family Tityridae * Dohrn's flycatcher or

Dohrn's thrush-babbler Dohrn's warbler (''Sylvia dohrni''), also known as Principe flycatcher-babbler, Dohrn's flycatcher, Dohrn's thrush-babbler, is a species of passerine bird in the family Sylviidae that is endemic to the island of Príncipe which lies off the west ...

, in the warbler genus ''Sylvia'' ±

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Cephalotus follicularis ''Cephalotus'' ( or ; Greek: ''κεφαλή'' "head", and ''οὔς''/''ὠτός'' "ear", to describe the head of the anthers) is a genus which contains one species, ''Cephalotus follicularis'' the Albany pitcher plant, a small carnivorous pl ...

'', also known as the Australian flycatcher plant or pitcher plant *

Fairey Flycatcher The Fairey Flycatcher was a British single-seat biplane Aircraft carrier, carrier-borne fighter aircraft made by Fairey Aviation Company which served from 1923 to 1934. It was produced with a conventional undercarriage for Aircraft carrier, car ...

, British fighter aircraft of the 1920s–1930s * Flycatcher (comics), character in the Vertigo comic book ''Fables'' *

Flycatcher (radar) The Flycatcher (KL/MSS-6720) radarsystem is a dual I/J/K-Band short range air defense fire control system. It has an all-weather capability and track-while-scan capability and can simultaneously control three anti-aircraft guns or SAM rocket lau ...

, short-range air defense fire control system *

Fly-killing device A fly-killing device is used for pest control of flying insects, such as houseflies, wasps, moths, gnats, and mosquitoes. Flyswatter A flyswatter (or fly-swat, fly swatter) usually consists of a small rectangular or round sheet of a lightweig ...

* HMS ''Flycatcher'', former UK military base *''

The Frog Prince "The Frog Prince; or, Iron Henry" (, literally "The Frog King or the Iron Henry") is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 in Grimms' Fairy Tales, ''Grimm's Fairy Tales'' (KHM 1). Traditionally, it is the fir ...

'', fairy tale, some of whose versions are dubbed "Flycatcher" {{Disambiguation Animal common name disambiguation pages