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Auld Warld fleecatcher

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(Reguidit frae Muscicapidae)

Auld Warld fleecatchers
White-eed slaty fleecatcher,
(Melaenornis fischeri)
Scientific classification e
Kinrick: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Cless: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Superfaimily: Muscicapoidea
Faimily: Muscicapidae
Fleming J., 1822
Genera

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The Auld Warld fleecatcher faimily Muscicapidae is a muckle faimily o smaa passerine birds maistly restrictit tae the Auld Warld (Europe, Africae an Asie). Thay are mainly smaa arboreal insectivores, mony o whilk, as the name implies, tak thair prey on the wing.