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	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Phoebe (astronomy)
		Phoebe is one of the planet’s most distant moons.
		Phoebe orbits Saturn at an average distance of...
		Leto was the mother of divine twins: Artemis, goddess of the bow and of hunting, and...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Phoebe_(astronomy).html (123 words)

	Birds - Professional Fly-Catching - How To Study Birds
		These birds are not so hardy or so early in nesting as the Phoebes, and it was not till the middle of June that I noticed, in driving frequently through a grove of locust trees, that a pair of Wood Pewees were always there in the same spot.
		I secured the picture of the mother bird incubating by standing on a step ladder with my reflecting camera and the big lens, having a young lady throw light upon the subject, not by means of her discourse or countenance, but by a mirror which reflected a sunbeam upon the shaded nest.
		Other birds that I met delayed me, and, missing the exact clump of alders, as there was not time for a careful search I was about to give up, when I put my hand into the very last likely clump of small alders in the open, at the edge of a high alder thicket.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles16/birds-25.shtml (3687 words)

	Eastern Phoebe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Eastern Phoebes are among the earliest spring migrants.
		Phoebes may build their mud and grass nests inside or under the eaves of barns and sheds; they favor the undersides of bridges and culverts.
		Eastern Phoebes are among the hardiest of flycatchers.
	birds.cornell.edu /BOW/EASPHO (441 words)

	Black Phoebe
		Black Phoebe: This bird is resident from northern California south and east to western Texas and also in tropics.
		Black Phoebe: This bird often hunts for food from a low, shaded perch where it watches for insects and swoops down to catch them in midair.
		Black Phoebe: Similar is the Eastern Phoebe, which has olive-gray sides and breast; brownish gray upperparts, and white underparts.
	identify.whatbird.com /obj/169/_/Black_Phoebe.aspx (539 words)

	Julie Zickefoose - Nature artist and writer.
		The phoebe nest melted away in the winter rains, and every spring thereafter, a phoebe came, sometimes for a day or two, sometimes for only a couple of hours, sang its cranky, wheezy song under our deck, and flew away.
		One was with a phoebe, who came one spring to put globs of wet mud atop a porch light by his front door.
		I guess I have a skewed outlook on phoebes, because it would never occur to me to consider the inevitable mess beneath their nests an annoyance, much less a death sentence.
	www.juliezickefoose.com /articles/phoebe_magic.html (1019 words)

	New Scientist Breaking News - Saturn's moon reveals violent past
		Phoebe was snapped by Cassini on Friday evening as the craft flew within 2000 kilometres of the moon.
		Because of these quirks it has been suggested that Phoebe was either an asteroid or comet captured by the giant planet's gravitational field.
		The images back the theory that Phoebe probably formed in the chilly outer Solar System, perhaps in a reservoir of comets beyond Neptune called the Kuiper belt, and was later captured by Saturn.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn5106 (441 words)

	Vineyard Gazette - Bird News
		The genus name of all three phoebes (Say's, eastern, and fl) is Sayornis, a pseudo-Greek coinage meaning, roughly, "Say's bird." Say's phoebe, then, Sayornis saya, translates to something like "Say's bird, Say," which might make one wonder who Say was, and why he deserves reiterated recognition.
		Born in 1787, Thomas Say, though obscure today outside the world of biology, was a brilliant naturalist, a leader of a generation of great biologists who explored, collected, and catalogued the wildlife of the western frontier of an expanding America.
		Sally reports that on Oct. 1, an albino jay was in one such flock, which was handy: the distinctive bird marked its flock, helping observers determine that a relatively small number of groups were circling the area, as opposed to a larger number of flocks passing through.
	www.mvgazette.com /features/bird_news?document=20041008_bird_news (872 words)

	Phoebes: A Description of the Phoebe Bird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Why birds that are mated for life, as these are said to be, and such devoted lovers, should not travel together on their journey north, is another of the many mysteries of bird-life awaiting solution.
		Throughout the long summer--for as the phoebe is the first flycatcher to come, so it is the last to go--the bird is a tireless hunter of insects, which it catches on the wing with a sharp click of its break, like the other members of its dexterous family.
		It is the bird of the open plains, a tireless hunter in midair sallies from an isolated perch, and has the same vibrating motion of the tail that the Eastern phoebe indulges in when excited.
	www.factopia.com /outdoors-birds/phoebe-flycathcer-descriptions.htm (719 words)

	Eastern Phoebe: Bird of the Month - Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center - National Zoo\| FONZ
		Eastern Phoebes are one of the first migratory birds to arrive in the spring in the northeastern United States.
		Eastern Phoebes are quite hardy for a bird that feeds extensively on flying insects, and are regularly found throughout the southern United States and Mexico in winter.
		During the breeding season, Eastern Phoebes inhabit the edges of waterways and forest clearings, and typically eschew the forest interior.
	nationalzoo.si.edu /ConservationAndScience/MigratoryBirds/Featured_Birds/default.cfm?bird=Eastern%20Phoebe (526 words)

	Wake-Robin by John Burroughs eBook by BookRags (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Another April bird, which makes her appearance sometimes earlier and sometimes later than Robin, and whose memory I fondly cherish, is the phoebe-bird, the pioneer of the flycatchers.
		If plainness of dress indicates powers of song as it usually does, then Phoebe ought to be unrivaled in musical ability, for surely that ashen-gray suit is the superlative of plainness; and that form, likewise, would hardly pass for a “perfect figure” of a bird.
		After a few weeks phoebe is seldom seen, except as she darts from her moss-covered nest beneath some bridge or shelving cliff.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/4203/7.html (421 words)

	Teacher's Guide for The Boy Who Drew Birds published by Houghton Mifflin Company
		He wrote: "To destroy the nest of a bird, or to deprive it of its eggs or young, is an act of great cruelty." Conversely, one way to help boost the populations of local birds is to provide safe nesting sites for the birds to lay their eggs and raise their young.
		Phoebe birds migrate south in the fall and return to their northern nesting sites in the spring.
		Most small birds' forms are made up of a few basic shapes: the head (a circle), the body (an oval), the beak (a triangle), the tail (a triangle).
	www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /readers_guides/davies_drew.shtml (3283 words)

	* Eastern Phoebe - (Bird): Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Eastern Phoebe is one of the earliest migrants in much of the eastern United States.
		The first record of a phoebe in Nova Scotia was reported by C...
		In various studies, for example, 40 to 70 percent of the nests of Red-eyed Vireos were parasitized, about 20 percent of Eastern Phoebe nests were parasitized, and about 40 percent of Song Sparrow nests were parasitized...
	www.mimihu.com /bird/eastern_phoebe.html (197 words)

	Australia 1997
		Phoebe offered Sue something for her trouble, and once Sue was out of ear shot declared "that's the best ten dollars I've ever spent." This quote was the basis of some amusement for the rest of the trip.
		The birding highlights of the day included excellent views of Pied Honeyeater, a new bird for David, Black Honeyeater, and a White-fronted Honeyeater which would have been a new bird for Phoebe but unfortunately her views were not good enough.
		The bird had obviously responded to the tape but it disappeared as quickly as it appeared, and this was the only sighting we had this evening.
	www.camacdonald.com /birding/tripreports/Australia97.html (15186 words)

	Phoebe bird picture
		Phoebe is one of those peaceful, confiding characters, which appropriates one corner of the roof of the wash-shed or the side porch without so much as saying "by your leave."
		The consequences are not such as a good housekeeper would approve; for Phoebe transports a considerable amount of mud from the borders of the neighboring stream with which to build her nest, and then after it is built she fails to keep it clean; it usually swarms with innurnerahle parasites.
		The bird is common throughout eastern North America, from Newfoundland southward.
	www.homegardendesign.info /phoebebirdpicture.html (338 words)

	Quotes about Bluebirds
		Birds are wonderful indicators of our overall environmental health, and as the environment is stressed and biodiversity reduced through habitat degradation and loss, the most sensitive species send out the signal first.
		so associated is his voice with the bird and death of the seasons that to me his song is freighted with all the gladness of springtime, while the sad notes of the birds passing southward tell me more plainly than the falling leaves that the year is dying.
		The other birds that arrive about the same time--the sparrow, the robin, the phoebe-bird--are clad in neutral tints, gray, brown, or russet; but the bluebird brings one of the primary hues and the divinest of them all.
	www.sialis.org /quotes.htm (5144 words)

	* Phoebe - (Bird): Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Phoebe is very often known as the "Bridge-Bird," not the kind of "bridge" with which so many people of this day are familiar, but the good, old-fashioned bridge that spans a stream or gully...
		Say's Phoebe is a phoebe of drier habitats in the western part of the U.S. They will often nest on and around farm buildings in the western part of the state...
		Phoebe nesting platforms should be under eaves and near water.
	www.mimihu.com /bird/phoebe.html (434 words)

	Phoebe (bird) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The genus Sayornis is a small group of medium-sized insect-eating birds in the Tyrant flycatcher family Tyrranidae native to North and South America.
		These birds wait on a perch and then catch insects in flight, also sometimes picking them up from the ground.
		Their nest is an open cup sometimes placed on man-made structures.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phoebe_(bird) (90 words)

	New Writing at Webdelsol
		Phoebe turned on Scott, who sat next to her on a mattress placed on the narrow floor space between the ranked equipment.
		Within minutes, Phoebe was so soundly asleep that even when, an hour later, the vector of their van changed abruptly from horizontal to vertical and they were engulfed by the spacecraft which had silently paced them since their departure, it took a whole ten seconds before the shouts of the others woke her up.
		Phoebe was relieved, both to straighten her neck and no longer to be functioning as perch to an alien budgie.
	webdelsol.com /4Walls8Windows/Paul_Di_Filippo/dif4.htm (5016 words)

	Birdwatching Trip Report from Australia
		Phoebe offered Sue something for her trouble and once Sue was out of ear shot declared 'that's the best ten dollars I've ever spent'.
		The bird was a female/immature but as Phoebe did not see any real features apart from the distinctive shape we would have to try for better views in the morning.
		Phoebe missed it but a few seconds later it appeared again and was joined by a second individual, both birds were females and we got good views as the ran around the boulders for the next minute or before disappearing into the spinifex.
	www.birdtours.co.uk /tripreports/australia/australia/austral.htm (15454 words)

	Birds: The Wood Pewee
		Brewer says that if noticed at all, it is generally confounded with the common Pewee, or Phoebe bird, though a little observation is sufficient to show how very distinct they are.
		This sentinel-like attitude of the Wood Pewee is in marked contrast to the restless motion of the Phoebe, who, even if perched, keeps its tail constantly in motion, while the bird itself seldom remains long in a fixed position.
		The Wood Pewee, like all of its family, is an expert catcher of insects, even the most minute, and has a remarkably quick perception of their near presence, even when the light of day has nearly gone and in the deep gloom of the thick woods.
	www.birdnature.com /oct1897/pewee.html (427 words)

	Postings from Ohio Birds: 15-18 March 2003
		Bird #1: seen perched in a tree perhaps ten or twelve feet off the ground.
		The birds in this lower portion of the river had no other options; all of the nearby quarries were nearly completely frozen (although the Campbell Mound Quarry had a fair squadron of geese, as well as the Great Blue Heron colony mentioned by Bob Royse).
		Several "spring" arrivals were evident yesterday including an Osprey (one of the regular nesting birds or a previous year fledgling), three Tree Swallows, two Green-winged Teal (drakes) and an Eastern Pheobe at the main office of the park.
	www.aves.net /archives/Ohiobirds-03-18mar.htm (4473 words)

	B-Mail(sm): PABIRDS for Mon, 13 Sep 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Maybe a factor was the ground fog in the valley and birds decided to land elsewhere.
		Birding for a few hours proved very slow and in fact I added no new species for the weekend.
		All in all it was a great weekend of birding and family camping with my wife, her family and good friends.
	www.virtualbirder.com /bmail/pabirds/200409/13 (4829 words)

	Rare Photos: Ohio Northern Wheatear : Big Island W.A., Marion Co. 9-18 November 1998
		The bird was initially within a ditch immediately east of a N-S running line of telephone poles you will find at this pulloff.
		While the bird was not directly assoiciated with these species it did occasionally settle on the dikes and possibly was foraging there.
		The prescence of this bird at this location does not suprise me and I have been encouraging birders to check both sides of the roadway.
	www.aves.net /rarities/wheatear98.htm (1001 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Phoebe (bird) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Phoebe (bird), common name for three species of American birds of the flycatcher family.
		The name is derived from the two-note song of the eastern...
		Phoebe is the 18th-furthest known satellite from the planet.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Phoebe_(bird).html (91 words)

	Phoebe bird pictures
		A Phoebe is always associated, in my mind, with old bridges and bubbling brooks.
		Nearly every bridge which is at all adapted for the purpose has its Phoebe home beneath it, to which the same pair of birds will return year after year, sometimes building a new nest, something repairing the old.
		They seem to be of a nervous temperament, for, as they sit upon their usual lookout perch, their tails are continually twitching as though in anticipation of the insects that are sure to pass sooner or later.
	www.birdfieldguide.com /phoebebirdpictures.html (171 words)

	Phoebe bird house plan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Free bird house plans > Free building bird house plans > Phoebe bird house plan
		Phoebes like to nest about buildings, and a simple shelf under the - roof of a porch or shed is all they require.
		This shelf if placed high under the eaves of a two-story building may attract barn swallows; phoebes and robins also are likely to build upon it if it is not less than 8 feet from theground.
	www.freebirdhouseplans.net /phoebebirdhouseplan.html (120 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| BEFORE WOMEN HAD WINGS by Connie May Fowler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Which is okay by me. She named both her children after birds, her logic being that if we were named for something with wings then maybe we'd be able to fly above the shit in our lives....
		Starstruck by a dime-store picture of Jesus, Bird fancies herself "His girlfriend" and embarks upon a spiritual quest for salvation, even as the chaos of her home life plunges her into a stony silence.
		In considering a picture of Jesus hanging on her bedroom wall, Bird says, "He was skinny, but I bet He was strong.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/before_women_had_wings.asp (949 words)

	Bird Books Phoebe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The note is a hoarse Phoebe, sometimes Pe-wit-Phoebe.
		It is usually uttered mournfully and monotonously; occasionally the male gives numerous Phoebes rapidly while on the wing.
		A favorite nesting site is underneath a bridge; eaves of barns or beams of piazzas are also used.
	www.birdgifts.com /phoebe.html (159 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Phoebe (bird)
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	encarta.msn.com /Phoebe_(bird).html (142 words)

	Oprah-produced TV show marks feature-directing debut for Kramer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bird, played by Tina Majorino, lives with her mother Glory Marie (Ellen Barkin), her father Billy (John Savage) and her teen-age sister Phoebe (Julia Stiles).
		Too many times, Bird witnesses her drunken father physically abusing her mother.
		To escape her mother's wrath, Bird seeks refuge in the nearby cottage of the mysterious Miss Zora (played beautifully by Winfrey).
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/110197/uk5357.htm (540 words)

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