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Mystery Bird #10
Transcript
SAY’S PHOEBE Sayornis saya
Description
FAMILY: Tyrannidae (Tyrant flycatchers) NEST: cup-shaped HABITAT: open woodland near water FOOD: insects, berries BEHAVIOR: hovering flight, feeds just above water, regurgitates pellets. Perches quietly, sits upright on exposed branches and snaps up insects in flight SIZE: body length 7-8 inches COLOR: gray brown with black tail and peach belly, bill flattened with bristles at the base SOUND: plaintive, downward, slurred “pweee” “pee-ee” MIGRATION: tropics in winter
Duration
36 seconds
Credit
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
Date Created
01/01/2002
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