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Eastern Phoebe

Sayornis phoebe

Photo by Tom15
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Field Notes

Description:

A flycatcher with a dark head, and lacking an eye ring and wing bars.

Habitat:

Phoebe's will often nest on human structures. This one was nesting under a small foot bridge going over a stream.

Reference Links:

Eastern Phoebe, Identification, All About Birds - Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
Tom15
These birds don't really have a song, more of a call that sounds like its name, fee-bee that it repeats.
RiekoS
I wish I can hear the bird singing :-)

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Birds of the World
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Global Flight
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Birds - Northeast US
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PublishedMay 24, 2013

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