List of Birds of Hawaii - Old World Flycatchers

Old World Flycatchers

  • Order: Passeriformes
  • Family:Muscicapidae

The Old World flycatchers are a large family of small passerine birds restricted to the Old World. These are mainly small arboreal insectivores, many of which, as the name implies, take their prey on the wing. The appearance of these birds is very varied, but they mostly have weak songs and harsh calls. The nest of most is a well-constructed cup in a tree or hedge. 1 species has been introduced to Hawaii.

  • White-rumped Shama, Copsychus malabaricus (I)

Read more about this topic:  List Of Birds Of Hawaii

Famous quotes containing the word world:

    The book borrower of real stature whom we envisage here proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures and by the deaf ear which he turns to all reminders from the everyday world of legality as by his failure to read these books.
    Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)