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 sited ...
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Walking along a trail in a northern Illinois woodlands, I noticed the silhouette of our earliest arriving migratory flycatcher. It’s not a colorful bird — Its body and wings are grayish-brown, its ...
The Eastern phoebe uses a hunting technique called "hawking." The bird sits on an exposed branch and then sallies forth to capture insects that fly by. BILL DANIELSON / For the Recorder Sign up for ...
As the frost line retreats northward in early spring, its withdrawal is often closely followed — and occasionally preceded — by the arrival of our most common flycatcher: the eastern phoebe. In fact, ...
New details are emerging on how birds are adapting to humans and it includes eating cat food as well as using human hair and fishing line for nests. Dubbed “Project Phoebe,” the research by Sage ...
A nest was assaulted. Was it the cowbird or the sparrow? Credit...Michelle Mildenberg Supported by By Daryln Brewer Hoffstot Ms. Hoffstot is a freelance writer living on a farm in western Pennsylvania ...