Eastern phoebes have a knack for getting insects that other flycatchers cannot. A birder once observed a phoebe hovering above the ground around the end of December.

Maine Audubon's Laura Minich Zitske tells us the eastern phoebe is most easily keyed out by its long, wagging tail - which twitches as it's perched upright on a tree branch.

An Eastern phoebe nest similar to this under a bridge in northeast Atlanta was saved when construction workers waited for the babies to fledge before doing extensive repairs on the bridge.

Eastern phoebes are in the flycatcher family and consume not just flies, but also wasps, grasshoppers and even ticks — great news to those of us who can’t walk in the woods without getting bitten.

These are actually modified feathers called facial bristles that help them sense their prey. When they catch their prey, they quickly snap their head back resulting in a snapping sound.

Eastern phoebes will be present in small numbers through our increasingly mild winters, although the vast majority still migrate south to the Gulf Coast of the U.S. or Mexico.

The Eastern phoebe (Sayornis phoebe)is a small songbird whose name, Phoebe, refers to the Roman moon-goddess Diana, as well as the sound of its vocalizations.Eastern phoebes spend their summers in ...

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