Editor’s note: The following column was originally printed in the New Hampshire Union Leader on Saturday, Aug. 12, 1995. Phoebes, friendly members of the flycatcher family that frequently nest near ...
The year that Ohio became a state, 1803, the first bird was banded in North America. The subject was an endearing little flycatcher known as the eastern phoebe. Pre-European settlement, phoebes sited ...
Walking along a trail in a northern Illinois woodlands, I noticed the silhouette of our earliest arriving migratory flycatcher. It’s not a colorful bird — Its body and wings are grayish-brown, its ...