phoebe
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- noun
- /ˈfiːbi/
- US
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phoebe
- The phoebe has hatched her chicks.
- the eastern phoebe
- phoebe bird
Examples
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- Poor Phoebes.
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Carmen Scherrer sent a pretty photo of an eastern phoebe dining on insects in vegetation at Lake Bradford.
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Seasonal patterns of relative abundance for the eastern phoebe, a common Neotropical migrant.
Academic text (2009) -
There are finches, both purple and gold, pine siskins and grosbeaks, cardinals and phoebes.
Fiction book (2000) -
An example of the way in which data from eBird can be used to describe seasonal patterns of relative abundance for the eastern phoebe (Sayornis phoebe), a common Neotropical migrant, is provided in figure 1.
Academic text (2009) -
A black phoebe accompanies me upstream, leaping exuberantly into the air from rocks in the stream after small midges dancing in the sunshine.
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Say's phoebes search for insects in grassy areas around the ranch.
Synonyms
A small plain brown bird from eastern North America that catches insects
A small bird that catches insects and often sits near streams
A large American bird that catches insects in flight
A large American bird that catches insects in flight
Compounds
- Specialized
A small plain brown bird from eastern North America that catches insects
Surface Forms
Etymology
Phoebe comes from the bird's two-note song that sounds like 'fee-bee', so people began to call the bird phoebe. That's why the small brown flycatcher gets a name you can remember — the bird seems to 'say' its own name.