I open the pantry door and the eastern phoebe flies off the nest. Her cup-shaped home is made of mud, covered in moss and cantilevered over a glass light fixture – an avian Fallingwater. Her nest ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the frost line retreats northward in early spring, its withdrawal is often closely followed — and occasionally preceded — by the arrival of our most common flycatcher: the eastern phoebe. In fact, ...

A nest was assaulted. Was it the cowbird or the sparrow? Credit...Michelle Mildenberg Supported by By Daryln Brewer Hoffstot Ms. Hoffstot is a freelance writer living on a farm in western Pennsylvania ...