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nounˈfiːbiˈfibi An American tyrant flycatcher with mainly grey-brown or blackish plumage. Genus Sayornis, family Tyrannidae: three species Example sentencesExamples - Perhaps humans perform the same service for phoebes.
- I can only assume from the brazen behavior of these phoebes that they were protecting a nest.
- A pair of bluebirds and a phoebe dallied across the street, and a hummingbird zipped across the western sky.
- When perched on shrubs, it often pumps its tail up and down like a phoebe.
- Scientists now know that many birds with eyesight sufficiently keen to discern striped patterns - phoebes, swallows and martins among them - gobble up bees and wasps with apparent relish.
- U.S. bird expert John James Audubon marked some brown and yellow birds known as phoebes in 1803 with silver wire.
- As April opens its world of promise and the sap rises in the tree, perhaps a phoebe, one of a returning phalanx, will stop to pause there.
- It may also be that parental phoebes attempted to dislodge cowbird shells and some were able to do so.
- I saw a couple of snipe fly over, and a phoebe or two hung around the edge of the cattails.
- The phoebe seemed our sole wild bird for the day (feeders are cheaters!) but on the way back to the car, we chanced upon some yellow-bellied beauty of a warbler.
- Like other phoebes, Say's Phoebes bob their tails.
- I thought it looked large and had a white chest and speculated it was one of the you phoebes that are hanging around.
- I was sure the cowbird, a female, was targeting the phoebes, and apparently they knew it too.
- Walking around the cemetery yielded a handful of red-wings, phoebes, doves, and Song Sparrows and nice looks at a Field Sparrow and a White-eyed Vireo.
- I assumed that all nest contents that disappeared between subsequent nest visits were removed by adult phoebes attending the nests.
- I can hear the songs of migrating birds: phoebes, white-throated sparrows, towhees, catbirds, chipping sparrows.
- A phoebe and a scissor-tail worked the fence, and Barn Swallows perched along the wires or flew overhead.
- Since we've identified plenty of phoebes in the field, I'm inclined to take this bird as a pewee.
- He tied silver cords around the legs of a group of phoebes, and spotted two of the banded nestlings when they returned the next year.
- I'm thinking a phoebe, purple martin, starling fluttering up, a kingbird, I have no idea what's on the lowest wire, a nuthatch and a robin.
Origin Early 18th century: imitative; influenced by the name Phoebe. proper nounˈfiːbiˈfibi 1Greek Mythology
A Titaness, daughter of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaia (Earth). She became the mother of Leto and thus the grandmother of Apollo and Artemis. In later Greek writing her name was often used for Selene (Moon). 2Astronomy
A satellite of Saturn, the furthest from the planet and with an eccentric retrograde orbit, discovered in 1898 (average diameter 220 km).
Origin From Greek Phoibē, literally 'bright one'. nounˈfibiˈfēbē An American tyrant flycatcher with mainly gray-brown or blackish plumage. Genus Sayornis, family Tyrannidae: three species, in particular the common eastern phoebe (S. phoebe) Example sentencesExamples - He tied silver cords around the legs of a group of phoebes, and spotted two of the banded nestlings when they returned the next year.
- As April opens its world of promise and the sap rises in the tree, perhaps a phoebe, one of a returning phalanx, will stop to pause there.
- I was sure the cowbird, a female, was targeting the phoebes, and apparently they knew it too.
- A pair of bluebirds and a phoebe dallied across the street, and a hummingbird zipped across the western sky.
- Scientists now know that many birds with eyesight sufficiently keen to discern striped patterns - phoebes, swallows and martins among them - gobble up bees and wasps with apparent relish.
- I can only assume from the brazen behavior of these phoebes that they were protecting a nest.
- Walking around the cemetery yielded a handful of red-wings, phoebes, doves, and Song Sparrows and nice looks at a Field Sparrow and a White-eyed Vireo.
- It may also be that parental phoebes attempted to dislodge cowbird shells and some were able to do so.
- A phoebe and a scissor-tail worked the fence, and Barn Swallows perched along the wires or flew overhead.
- Like other phoebes, Say's Phoebes bob their tails.
- U.S. bird expert John James Audubon marked some brown and yellow birds known as phoebes in 1803 with silver wire.
- Since we've identified plenty of phoebes in the field, I'm inclined to take this bird as a pewee.
- Perhaps humans perform the same service for phoebes.
- I thought it looked large and had a white chest and speculated it was one of the you phoebes that are hanging around.
- I can hear the songs of migrating birds: phoebes, white-throated sparrows, towhees, catbirds, chipping sparrows.
- I'm thinking a phoebe, purple martin, starling fluttering up, a kingbird, I have no idea what's on the lowest wire, a nuthatch and a robin.
- When perched on shrubs, it often pumps its tail up and down like a phoebe.
- I assumed that all nest contents that disappeared between subsequent nest visits were removed by adult phoebes attending the nests.
- The phoebe seemed our sole wild bird for the day (feeders are cheaters!) but on the way back to the car, we chanced upon some yellow-bellied beauty of a warbler.
- I saw a couple of snipe fly over, and a phoebe or two hung around the edge of the cattails.
Origin Early 18th century: imitative; influenced by the name Phoebe. proper nounˈfibiˈfēbē 1Greek Mythology
A Titaness, daughter of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaia (Earth). She became the mother of Leto and thus the grandmother of Apollo and Artemis. In the later Greek writers, her name was often used for Selene (Moon). 2Astronomy
A satellite of Saturn, the furthest from the planet and with an eccentric retrograde orbit, discovered in 1898. At a distance of 8 million miles (13 million km) from Saturn, it has a diameter of 137 miles (220 km).
Origin From Greek Phoibē, literally ‘bright one’. |