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.

The phoebe is a gray-brown sparrow-sized bird. It resembles a wood pewee but lacks the two white wing bars found on that species. Notice that the phoebe constantly pumps its tail up and down.

The Greek goddess Phoebe is associated with the moon — which explains why a bird called eastern phoebe showed up in my yard after October’s full moon. OK, the moon had nothing to do with the ...

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 ...

The eastern phoebe is an insect eating bird that can be seen in area neighborhoods during the winter. Photo Credit: Kathy Adams Clark. Restricted use.

But this species, called an eastern phoebe, is a sight for sore birders’ eyes. By middle to late March, the phoebe returns to Illinois from the southeastern United States and Mexico to set up ...

The year that Ohio became a state, 1803, the first bird was banded in North America. The subject was an endearing little flycatcher known as the eastern phoebe. Pre-European settlement, phoebes ...

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 ...

Some birds never migrate, for example our Carolina wrens and northern cardinals and white-breasted nuthatches. ... The migration of one flycatcher, the eastern phoebe, ...

Hey Phoebe, birds are back in the Upper Valley! ... Published April 8, 2025. Was that the call of an eastern phoebe, the small grey bird local to the Upper Valley? Every spring, hundreds of species of ...

Jill Henderson, who resides in Saltville, Virginia, emailed me recently with a question about a bird nesting atop a column on her back porch. Eastern phoebe member of extensive flycatcher family ...