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Fee’-bee! Fee’-bee! You are probably hearing this buzzy song of the eastern phoebe in your neighborhood now. These flycatchers spend the winter in the southeastern United States and return to ...
Learn how to identify an eastern phoebe. Eastern Kingbird Behavior With the scientific name Tyrannus tyrannus and a knack for attacking much larger birds to defend its nest, the ultimate “king ...
The brown thrasher, Georgia's official state bird, has a repertoire of more than 1,500 songs, the largest known repertoire of any of our birds. » In most songbird species, the males do all the ...
A common bird folks ask about is the eastern phoebe. They can be identified by their unique song which is often described as a raspy sounding “phoebe, phoebe." Another way to identify them is by ...
As birds go, the eastern phoebe is as plain as they come. Nevertheless, the phoebe is an active, energetic and interesting bird. The phoebe is uniformly gray brown, slightly darker on the head.
For the past few weeks, we’d been avoiding using our front door. It’s because the resident Eastern Phoebes (Photo by Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren) have returned. In the past, I had watched ...
Developed by the Cornell Lab for Ornithology, the Merlin bird identification app has details about more than 10,000 species. It also includes a photo ID tab and a sound ID tab. This spring I am using ...
An Eastern phoebe nest similar to this under a bridge in northeast Atlanta was saved when construction workers waited ... common birds —the species that many of us see every day — have ...
Gulf Coast Bird Observatory’s avian research team is continuing to monitor for non-breeding shorebirds along the Upper Texas Coast. Our main focus are those species that are classified as ...
Eastern phoebes have the distinction of being the first bird ever banded, in 1804 by John James Audubon himself. He, too, watched an eastern phoebe nest at his farm in Mill Grove, Pa., about 200 ...
Was that the call of an eastern phoebe, the small grey bird local to the Upper Valley? Every spring, hundreds of species of birds can be viewed in the Upper Valley, many of which have migrated back to ...