“The phoebe seemed our sole wild bird for the day but on the way back to the car, we chanced upon some yellow-bellied beauty of a warbler.”

“A phoebe and a scissor-tail worked the fence, and Barn Swallows perched along the wires or flew overhead.”

“As April opens its world of promise and the sap rises in the tree, perhaps a phoebe, one of a returning phalanx, will stop to pause there.”

“Since we've identified plenty of phoebes in the field, I'm inclined to take this bird as a pewee.”

“He tied silver cords around the legs of a group of phoebes, and spotted two of the banded nestlings when they returned the next year.”

“I can only assume from the brazen behavior of these phoebes that they were protecting a nest.”