The family Muscicapidae includes 6 species found in North America.

This group includes the African and Eurasian "flycatchers", but not the convergently similar "flycatcher" groups that are members of the Muscicapidae family. The New World tyrant flycatchers are members of the Tyrannidae family. Thus, the "flycatcher" pattern of morphology and behavior has evolved independently from several ancestral lineages.