Talk:Spotted flycatcher

predate vs depredate
changed "predate" to "depredate" with the comment: To predate' means to occur before; the verb relating to predation is 'to depredate'

According to the Oxford English Dictionary "predate" has two meanings: The OED gives these examples - Aa77zz (talk) 09:17, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
 * 1.To give or assign a date to (a document, an event, etc.) earlier than the actual or currently accepted one; to set back in time
 * 2.To act as a predator of; to catch and eat (prey). Chiefly in pass.
 * 1941 [implied in: Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 46 491  Every predated organism fights to prevent its being gobbled up by the predator. (at predated adj.)].
 * 1956  Proc. Royal Soc. B. 145 313   Many larvae..were heavily predated by cuckoos.
 * 1977  New Scientist 27 Oct. 220/3   The eggs of many species of frogs are predated by many species of vertebrates and invertebrates.
 * 1994  Nature Conservancy May 18/2   People, who scare turtles, also bring litter, which..also brings more raccoons to predate nests.
 * 2002  J. Cohen & I. Stewart Evolving Alien vii. 154   These could then be grazed by specialised protozoa (ciliates like Paramecium..), which were then predated by larger organisms.