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Bird call
Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) call
A raspy, emphatic fee-bee, fee-b-be; wags its tail on a low perch.
Listen to the Eastern Phoebe call
A field recording of the Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) by robinlanark, shared on iNaturalist. Listen for the Eastern Phoebe in garden habitats.
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Sounds similar
Birds that sound similar to the Eastern Phoebe
These birds belong to the tyrant flycatcher family, like the Eastern Phoebe, so their calls can sound alike.
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Eastern Wood-Pewee Contopus virens
A slow, plaintive, whistled pee-a-wee, then a falling pee-yer.
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Black Phoebe Sayornis nigricans
A sharp tsip call and a thin two-part pi-tsee, pi-tsew song near water.
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Western Flycatcher Empidonax difficilis
A sharp, rising, two-part tsee-WEET call, like a question, from shady forest in summer.
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Western Kingbird Tyrannus verticalis
Sharp kip notes that build into squeaky, bickering chatter from roadside wires.
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Say's Phoebe Sayornis saya
A plaintive, down-slurred pee-ur whistle from a fence, barn or rock.
Questions
Questions about the Eastern Phoebe
What does the Eastern Phoebe sound like?
A raspy, emphatic fee-bee, fee-b-be; wags its tail on a low perch. Listen to the recording above.
Which birds sound like the Eastern Phoebe?
Eastern Wood-Pewee, Black Phoebe, Western Flycatcher, Western Kingbird and Say's Phoebe sound similar.
Where can I hear the Eastern Phoebe?
SongLark teaches it in its Birds of Eastern North America course.
How can I learn the Eastern Phoebe call?
In SongLark's Birds of Eastern North America course, it comes in Level 4: Fields & Edges. SongLark teaches it by ear with real field recordings.
Courses
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SongLark teaches the Eastern Phoebe in its Birds of Eastern North America course. Each course plays real field recordings and brings every bird back for review just before you would forget it.
- In Birds of Eastern North America, the Eastern Phoebe comes in Level 4: Fields & Edges. That Level is about meadows, hedgerows and summer visitors.
Learn it with these birds in Level 4 of Birds of Eastern North America
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Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis
A soft, low, warbled chur-lee, chur-lee and a gentle tu-a-wee call.
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Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus
A bright drink-your-teeeee and a rising chewink call from the undergrowth.
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Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea
Bright, paired phrases: fire-fire, where-where, here-here, see-it, see-it.
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Field Sparrow Spizella pusilla
Sweet, slurred whistles that speed up into a trill, like a bouncing ball.
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Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
A clear, slurred, whistled see-you, see-yeeer from a fence post.
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Northern Yellow Warbler Setophaga aestiva
A bright, quick sweet-sweet-sweet, I'm so sweet.
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Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
A rolling witchety-witchety-witchety from reeds and damp scrub.
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Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
Rich, whistled, flute-like notes in short phrases, and a dry chattering rattle.
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Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
Liquid, gurgling twitters and a cheerful, chirping song over ponds and marshes.
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Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
A cheerful, twittering warble with a dry rattle; long tail streamers over farms and fields.
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Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum
Flocks give very high, thin, lisping sreee notes, almost too high to hear.
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Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
A piercing kill-DEER, often given on the wing at night.
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