phoebes

A recent report on nesting behaviour in phoebes (Sayornis) showed that they started sleeping on the nest some time before egg-laying started – pretty unexpected given that most other passerines only start spending the night on the nest the night before they begin laying.

Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006

NestWatch participants can monitor the nests of backyard birds that don't use nest boxes, such as phoebes, robins and goldfinches.

IdahoStatesman.com News Updates 2009

We seined bugs from the stream, learned how trout are made of trees, and talked about caves and springs; all the while we listened to the phoebes calling loudly from the banks of the North Fork.

Taking Kids Fishing 2009

Eyes sittin here at muh desk, listenin to Tom and Ray the Car Guys, luking out the winder and I have seen so far dis mawning three wild turkeys, one red fawx, hordes of chipmawnks, many skwirls, uncountable boids of all sorts, and now I have a pair of phoebes building a nest above muh offis winder.

lolcat twin powers - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

Robert Frost used it as a Shakesperian pun, in The Need of Being Versed in Country Things, a poem about how the phoebes will not understand human sexuality.

Congratulations to Jane Fonda! Ann Althouse 2008

They heard name-saying birds such as whippoorwills and phoebes.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

They heard name-saying birds such as whippoorwills and phoebes.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

They heard name-saying birds such as whippoorwills and phoebes.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

A tip of the old helmet to phoebes, who has some very cool stuff on her website.

The most splendiferous of sockpuppets 2006

Made a little more pleasant by the constant chatter of Say's phoebes, kingbirds and mourning doves, and the rumble of the trains.

grouse Diary Entry grouse 2005