I thought it looked large and had a white chest and speculated it was one of the you phoebes that are hanging around. |
Phoebes belong to the tyrant flycatcher family and are adapted for capturing insects on the wing. |
Walking around the cemetery yielded a handful of red-wings, phoebes, doves, and Song Sparrows and nice looks at a Field Sparrow and a White-eyed Vireo. |
Development of hypervariable microsatellite loci for use in Eastern Phoebes and related tyrannids. |
Over the years I have spotted in my yard scores of sparrows, phoebes, warblers, towhees, plus of course ravens and those awful starlings. |
Loggerhead Shrikes and Say's Phoebes, however, have both shown substantial decreases during the study, and their extirpation from the area may be imminent. |