ABSTRACT
Flycatchers are an extremely diverse family of birds that have adapted to a variety of lifestyles: migratory or resident, groundto canopy-dwelling, frugivorous or insectivorous, shy or gregarious, and so forth. Flycatchers are small-sized to medium-sized birds. Depending on the species, flycatchers can be sexually dichromatic, dimorphic, or monochromatic/monomorphic. All adhering to either the Complex Basic or Complex Alternate Strategy. The prealternate molt is most commonly exhibited in migratory species, although much is to be learned about the presence or absence of prealternate molts in austral migrants. The extent of the preformative molt varies from partial, to incomplete and regular, to incomplete and eccentric, to complete. Skull ossification seems to vary among species; it appears to ossify during the formative plumage for some species, and rarely or never completely ossifies in others. Females may exclusively exhibit brood patches and incubate eggs except, maybe, in ground-dwelling species such as Corythopis torquatus.
