What's the difference between flycatcher and pewee?
Flycatcher
Definition:
(n.) One of numerous species of birds that feed upon insects, which they take on the wing.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s home to a quarter of a million people, about 150 elephants and a host of other wild animals ranging from bears and tigers to flycatchers and martens.
(2) A field experiment was performed implanting female pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) during the nest-building period with silastic tubes containing 17 beta-estradiol.
(3) Other migrants that spend winter in Africa, such as cuckoos, whinchats and spotted flycatchers, are being found in the UK at half the number they were two decades ago.
(4) Pseudadelphoscolex eburnensis, a new genus and species of metadilepidid Cyclophyllidea parasitic in the red-bellied paradise flycatcher, Terpsiphone rufiventer, from the Ivory Coast, is described.
(5) On his final day, he visited the island of Camino off the Maltese coast and saw more birds than he had all week – spotted flycatchers, hoopoes and golden oriole.
(6) In collared flycatchers (Ficedula albicollis), in contrast, rhythmicity continues under much longer photoperiods, consistent with the fact that the wintering area of this species extends to latitudes far south of the equator.
(7) This idea is further supported by findings in the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca), in which a circannual rhythmicity persists only if photoperiod in winter is at least as short as that normally encountered by the species in its wintering grounds slightly north of the equator.
(8) The brains of the swift Streptoprocne zonaris, the flycatcher Tyrannus melancholicus, the tanager Ramphocelus dimidiatus and the finch Oryzoborus angolensis were compared with respect to the hyperstriatum accessorium, hyperstriatum dorsale, hyperstriatum ventrale, neostriatum, ectostriatum, paleostriatum augmentatum and paleostriatum primitivum.
(9) This experiment explored the stimulatory effect of brooding newly hatched young on plasma prolactin concentration in male and female pied flycatchers, Ficedula hypoleuca.
(10) A surprisingly high proportion (42%) of breeding pied flycatchers failed to mob a stuffed pygmy owl placed near the nests.
(11) In the pied flycatcher there exists an anomaly in the relationship between cortical histology and plasma levels of corticosterone during the breeding period.
(12) The pied flycatcher is a polygamous and polyterritorial bird species.
(13) The thresholds of the generation of EP in the L field of two to nine day old pied flycatcher nestlings in response to monotonal bursts of varied frequency were investigated.
(14) Thresholds of field L auditory evoked potentials EP were studied in 1.5-9-day-old nestlings of pied flycatcher in response to pure tone signals of different frequencies.
(15) In an attempt to study this anomaly, binding capacity and binding affinity of plasma corticosterone-binding proteins (CBP) were studied in free-living pied flycatchers during the early and late parts of the breeding period.
(16) Acute ethanol influence on field L auditory evoked potentials (AEP) was studied in 4-8-days-old altricial nestlings of pied flycatcher.
(17) Female flycatchers given 3-day-old nestlings on the day their own eggs hatched showed an earlier reduction in night-time brooding and an earlier decrease in plasma prolactin than did control birds.
(18) Male pied flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca given injections of long-acting testosterone, when in full breeding condition, maintained spermatogenesis.
(19) Thus, the results show that an elevation of plasma levels of corticosterone in adult pied flycatchers during the nestling period affects parental as well as territorial behavior.
(20) Photograph: Alonso Tenorio Many birds nest on the remote island, including the Cocos cuckoo, flycatcher and finch that are found nowhere else in the world.
Pewee
Definition:
(n.) A common American tyrant flycatcher (Sayornis phoebe, or S. fuscus). Called also pewit, and phoebe.