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spotted flycatcher

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spotted flycatcher
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(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a European woodland songbird, Muscicapa striata, with a greyish-brown streaked plumage: family Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers)
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Noun1.spotted flycatcher - common European woodland flycatcher with greyish-brown plumagespotted flycatcher - common European woodland flycatcher with greyish-brown plumage
Muscicapa grisola, Muscicapa striata
flycatcher, Old World flycatcher, true flycatcher - any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing
genus Muscicapa, Muscicapa - type genus of the Muscicapidae
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CAPTION(S): ENDANGERED: spotted flycatcher TREE-MENDOUS: Peter Earnshaw and Sam Cooper in Bretton Woods
pounds 20,000 help for woodland birds by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
A wryneck and several pied and spotted flycatchers were the highlight of last weekend on Bardsey.
bird notes by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
The latter is a summer visitor, just one of several migratory species including the turtle dove, cuckoo and spotted flycatcher, whose populations are declining.
How you can help chart the fortunes of Britain's birds by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
 
 
 
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