phoebe bird


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Related to phoebe bird: Eastern Phoebe
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Noun1.phoebe bird - small dun-colored North American flycatcherphoebe bird - small dun-colored North American flycatcher
Sayornis phoebe, phoebe
New World flycatcher, tyrant bird, tyrant flycatcher, flycatcher - large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing
genus Sayornis, Sayornis - phoebes
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