phoebe bird

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Related to phoebe bird: Eastern Phoebe

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phoebe bird - small dun-colored North American flycatcher

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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Prizewinners were: Udo Onyenso, six, from Almondbury; Toby Hulme, four, from Marsden; Dylan Wailes, six, from Batley; Harry Stanton, six, from Holmfirth; Theo McFarlane, eight, from Birkby; Jessica Richards, nine, from Birstall; Safah Hussain, seven, from Huddersfield; Finlay Addy-Child, 10, from Linthwaite; Phoebe Bird, 12, from Heckmondwike; Lily Webb, 12, from Rastrick; Joe Day, 11 from Dewsbury and Ayaan Sarwar, 11, from Batley.

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And grass, and white and red morningglories, and white and red clover, and the song of the phoebe bird,