Eastern Phoebe

The Eastern Phoebe’s latin name is Sayornis phoebe. It lives in Eastern North America. The Eastern Phoebe’s preferred habitat is woodlands, woody vegetation, forest edges, and closed forests. Their breeding season starts in March and ends in October. The Eastern Phoebe bird migrates south from September through November. Their population is slowly increasing. They are found at Coal Creek Farm year round but fewer numbers in the winter.

The Eastern Phoebe call (or Eastern Phoebe bird call) is a sharp chip, and the Eastern Phoebe song, from which it gets it name, is fee-bee. The Eastern Phoebe’s diet consists of wasps, bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, spiders, ticks, millipedes, fruits, berries, and moths. A Eastern Phoebe nest is large, and made of mud and lined with grasses, hair, fibers, feathers and moss. It may take 3 weeks to complete a nest. Eastern Phoebe eggs are pure white, although the last 1 or 2 may have a few dots. This bird has a remarkably big head for its body size.