Eastern Phoebe

Sayornis phoebe Order: PASSERIFORMES Family: Flycatchers (Tyrannidae)
Eastern Phoebe Worn Summer Head Illustration

Head

  • Bill Shape: All-purpose
  • Eye Color: Brown.
  • Head Pattern: Plain
  • Crown Color: Dark gray-brown
  • Forehead Color: Dark gray-brown
  • Nape Color: Dark gray-brown
  • Throat Color: White
  • Cere color: No Data
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Eastern Phoebe Worn Summer Body Illustration

Body

  • Length Range: 18 cm (7 in)
  • Weight: 20 g (0.7 oz)
  • Size: Size 2. Small (5 - 9 in)
  • Color: White, Brown, Black, Gray, Yellow, Olive
  • Underparts: White with pale brown breast.
  • Upperparts: Gray-brown
  • Back Pattern: Solid
  • Belly Pattern: Solid
  • Breast Pattern: Solid
Eastern Phoebe Worn Summer Flight Illustration

Flight

  • Flight Pattern: Weak buoyant fluttering flight with shallow wing beats.
  • Wingspan Range: 29 cm (11.5 in)
  • Wing Shape: Pointed-Wings
  • Tail Shape: Pointed Tail
  • Tail Pattern: Solid with white edging.
  • Upper Tail: Dark gray-brown
  • Under Tail: Dark gray-brown
  • Leg Color: Black
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Family Flycatcher (Tyrannidae)_blue
Species Sayornis phoebe
Length7 Inches
Wingspan11.5 Inches

Eastern Phoebe

Eastern Phoebe: Small flycatcher with dark gray-brown upperparts and slightly darker wings and tail. Underparts are pale with hint of olive-brown or yellow on sides and breast. Bill, legs, and feet are black. Feeds on insects, small fish, berries and fruit. Weak fluttering bouyant flight.

● Song: "chip", "FEE-be"

● Foraging & Feeding: Eastern Phoebe: Feeds on insects, small fish, berries, and fruits. Forages from atop tree branches and other perches, flying out to catch prey in mid-air; also gleans food from foliage, on the ground, and at the water surface.

● Breeding & nesting: Eastern Phoebe: Two to eight white eggs with occasional red brown spots are laid in a nest made of mud pellets covered with moss and lined with grass, weeds, leaves, hair, and feathers. Nest is normally built on top of an old nest, or attached to a building. Incubation is about 16 days and is carried out by both parents.

● Similar species: Eastern Phoebe: Eastern Wood-Pewee has darker underparts, yellow lower mandible, two white wing-bars, different voice, and does not pump tail.

Flight Pattern

Weak buoyant fluttering flight with shallow wing beats.
Eastern Phoebe Worn Summer Body Illustration
● Range & Habitat: Eastern Phoebe: Breeds north of the Mason-Dixon Line in North America; spends winters as far north as the Ohio River.
BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester
Population
MigrationMost migrate
Weight0.7 Ounces