| 单词 | phoebe |
| 例句 | On an apple bough, the phoebe teeters and wags its tail and says, “Phoebe, phoe-bee!” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z The phoebe clicks out his alarm cry and I tense. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They also recognized acorn woodpeckers, a California towhee, dozens of turkey vultures circling overhead, a dark-eyed junco, a mockingbird, an Anna’s hummingbird and a black phoebe. How L.A.’s bird population is shaped by historic redlining and racist loan practices 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z One day last spring when I went to check on her, I found three raw and naked eastern phoebe nestlings tossed onto the porch floor. An Avian Murder Case on a Quiet Back Porch 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z I watched two black phoebes fly away from the ribbons fluttering in their direction, clearly disgusted by my decorating choices. These glittering ribbons scare away baby birds and also my focus 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z In 2011, a U.S. attorney in North Dakota charged Hamm with a criminal misdemeanor after a Say’s phoebe got stuck and died in a pond of oil waste. Trump administration eases rule against killing birds 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z In 2011, a U.S. attorney in North Dakota charged Hamm with a criminal misdemeanor after migratory birds, including ducks and a Say’s phoebe, got stuck and died in a pond of fracking waste. Trump administration eases rule against killing birds 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z A phoebe hollers from her nest; a scissortail flits between fence and field. A Beautiful Insect That Buries Dead Bodies Is In the Middle of a Conservation Battle 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z “Eastern phoebes have to regroup and find safer nesting sites,” Mulvihill said, “preferably forested settings near streams, where they breed naturally.” An Avian Murder Case on a Quiet Back Porch 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z It was, she explained from behind a pair of binoculars, her first sighting of a bird called a black phoebe, which normally ranges no closer to Puget Sound than Southern Oregon. Washington port biologist on watching hawks, eagles, salmon 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Moving on, he saw an Eastern phoebe, a Northern flicker and a black-capped chickadee. Rare Find in New York: A Teenage Birder 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Cactus wrens, curve-billed thrashers, black phoebes, Lucifer hummingbirds and greater roadrunners are among the year-round avian inhabitants. The essential guide to all 59 U.S. national parks 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z In 2011 the Fish and Wildlife Service convinced the Justice Department to file criminal indictments against three oil companies working in North Dakota’s Bakken field for inadvertently killing six ducks and one phoebe. An Ill Wind: Open Season on Bald Eagles 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Eastern phoebes are an early nesting species and may have traditionally had their first brood before competition from later-nesting house sparrows, he explained. An Avian Murder Case on a Quiet Back Porch 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Canada geese, cliff swallows, a snowy egret, cedar waxwings, mallards, ruddy ducks, coots, black phoebes and grackles swoop and splash with abandon. Bird L.A. Day to showcase Los Angeles County's avian abundance 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z The calls of an Eastern phoebe resonated through the sober woods; it was still winter in most ways. The Trout Lily's Brief Spring 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z The eastern phoebe, a nondescript brown bird known as one of the season’s first harbingers, is flitting in the trees, said Harry Maas, president of New York City Audubon. City Room: New York Today: Dawn of Spring 2014-03-20T10:00:10Z Resting on a red oak branch, I noticed its white fringe and pale underside: an eastern phoebe, a migrant returning early to the woods this year, along with the other woodland denizens. City Room: Spring Time: After a Night of Rain, a Gloomy Scene 2012-04-05T20:59:18Z “But warmer spring weather induces house sparrows to nest earlier in some areas, and eastern phoebes may have lost their usual seasonal head start,” he said. An Avian Murder Case on a Quiet Back Porch 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z There were plenty of species at street level as well: blue jays, cardinals, American crows, Eastern phoebes, killdeer, loggerhead shrike, kestrel falcons, bronzed cowbirds and, rarest of all, an open-ground woodpecker. The Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans Gives New Meaning to ?Urban Growth? 2012-03-22T13:27:22Z The chickadee, whippoorwill, phoebe and pewee also tell you their names, but this bird announces himself by two names, so you need make no mistake. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z Several phoebe nests had been built on the shelves of rock along under the ledge, which the naturalist pointed out to me. Rambles with John Burroughs 2011-10-22T02:00:31.317Z The electric light is reduced to one bulb, but when the maid opens the door showing in mr. george booth she switches on the rest. phoebe. This room is empty, sir. Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste 2011-03-22T02:00:23.063Z “If bluebirds and eastern phoebes have an enemy, it is we humans, not the house sparrows we brought here.” An Avian Murder Case on a Quiet Back Porch 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z It will be interesting to see when or if she deigns to hold a press conference after Jan. 3. — phoebe whistlethorpe She is not qualified to the Chancellor of the New York City Public Schools. City Room: On Her First Day, Black Reads to First Graders 2010-11-30T22:18:00Z Some over-thrifty housekeepers, nevertheless, tear down nests from their piazzas, because the poor little phoebes are so afflicted with lice that they are considered objectionable neighbours. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z Under one ledge that extended over at least twelve feet, was a phoebe's nest that Mr. Burroughs thought had been there for more than a quarter of a century. Rambles with John Burroughs 2011-10-22T02:00:31.317Z He trots away. mr. voysey. Leave the rest of the table, Phoebe. phoebe. Yes, sir. mr. voysey. You can come back in ten minutes. phoebe and mary depart and the door is closed. Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste 2011-03-22T02:00:23.063Z I open the pantry door and the eastern phoebe flies off the nest. An Avian Murder Case on a Quiet Back Porch 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z The notes, to some ears, are Phoebe, phoebe, pewit, phoebe! to others, of somewhat duller sense of hearing, perhaps, Pewee, pewee, pewee! Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 3 September 1897 But a thorough dusting of the phoebe's nest with Persian powder would bring relief to the tormented birds, save their babies, perhaps, from death and keep the piazza free from vermin. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z The woodshed was in twilight yet; its various contents shewing dimly, the phoebe who had built her nest under the low roof just astir, but the wood work was going on briskly. Say and Seal, Volume II At this moment phoebe, the middle aged parlour-maid comes in, tray in hand. Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste 2011-03-22T02:00:23.063Z Before eastern phoebes lived so close to humans, they built their nests on cliffs. An Avian Murder Case on a Quiet Back Porch 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Only the vesper sparrows were here, filling the amber twilight with their soft murmurs, and away in the dim green aisles of the Slash a phoebe was calling sweetly. In Orchard Glen The chickadee, phoebe, peewee, towhee, whip-poor-will and bobolink, who tell their names less plainly than he, save every child who tries to know them much trouble. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z Among the birds most frequently victimized are the phoebes, the song sparrows, the indigo birds, the bush sparrows, and the yellow-breasted chats. Our Bird Comrades Birds and Insects: Field and class lessons on the habits, movements, and foods of common birds, as crow, woodpecker, king-bird, phoebe, blackbird, etc. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Every year for 35 years, we’ve had an eastern phoebe nest under the eaves of our back porch. An Avian Murder Case on a Quiet Back Porch 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Must we give in," says he with a grin, "'T the bluebird an' phoebe are smarter'n we be? Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes While not so ready to be neighbourly as the phoebe, the pewee condescends to visit our orchards and shade trees. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z At an abandoned limestone quarry one spring I discovered the nest of a pair of phoebes. Our Bird Comrades Must we give in," Says he with a grin, "'T the bluebird an' phoebe Are smarter'n we be? Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans" Eastern phoebes are in the flycatcher family and consume not just flies, but also wasps, grasshoppers and even ticks — great news to those of us who can’t walk in the woods without getting bitten. An Avian Murder Case on a Quiet Back Porch 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z As long as pigpens endure, and that shall be as long as the human race endures, why should not the line of phoebes also endure? The Hills of Hingham What must the expert phoebe think of such a poorly made, untidy cradle, or that bustling, energetic housewife, Jenny Wren, or the tiniest of clever architects, the hummingbird? Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z In the half light a phoebe begins her shrill song. Some Summer Days in Iowa The winter birds report all present but there are a number of new voices, especially the warble of the robin, the tremulous, confiding "sol-si, sol-si" of the bluebird and the clear call of the phoebe. Some Winter Days in Iowa Eastern phoebes have the distinction of being the first bird ever banded, in 1804 by John James Audubon himself. An Avian Murder Case on a Quiet Back Porch 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z The phoebe bird is about the first one we shall see. Outdoor Sports and Games Time for these young phoebes to leave the nest. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z It is the robin, catbird, thrush, bluebird, dove, woodpecker, chickadee, phoebe, tanager and other birds of the lawn, the garden and orchard that afford good hunting for sly and savage old Thomas. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation Hinpoha listened to his disgruntled "pewit phoebe, pewit phoebe," and made haste to throw him some crumbs. The Camp Fire Girls at School Or, The Wohelo Weavers He, too, watched an eastern phoebe nest at his farm in Mill Grove, Pa., about 200 miles east of here as the flycatcher flies. An Avian Murder Case on a Quiet Back Porch 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z The phoebe still sings in harmony with the sultry weather by the brink of the pond, nor are the desultory hours of noon in the midst of the village without their minstrel. Excursions Pronounce: Darius; aspiring; genius; awry; grimace; droll; Daedalus; Icarus; almanacs; phoebe; calked; breeches; accoutered; pagans; jaunty; stanched. The Elson Readers, Book 5 At Mr. Frank Seaman's summer home in the Catskills, the phoebe birds nest on the beams under the roof of the porch. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation It seemed like a delicious joke to her that he should be calling so plaintively for his phoebe, not knowing that there was a Phoebe on the premises all the while. The Camp Fire Girls at School Or, The Wohelo Weavers More than one little flock of tree swallows went over the wood, and once a pair of phoebes amused me by an uncommonly pretty lover's quarrel. A Florida Sketch-Book The young robins are out in a tree close by us, and the phoebe has built, as usual, under the front steps. Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals Very early in my life the coming of the bluebird, the phoebe, the song sparrow, and the robin, in the spring, were events that stirred my emotions, and gave a new color to the day. Our Friend John Burroughs I shall kill every one that comes,—for the sake of retaining the wrens, catbirds, phoebes and thrushes that now literally make home happy for my family. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation The migratory tide of robins, song-sparrows, phoebes, and other early birds was still moving northward; but multitudes had dropped out of line, having reached their haunts of the previous year. Nature's Serial Story A naturalist like J. Alden Loring can by patient effort win the confidence of a chickadee, or a phoebe bird, and bring it literally to his finger. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations "Pewit- phoebe!" he calls, with a wag of his tail, as he sits on a fence or bridge rail. Friends and Helpers He said he could see now the huddled sheep, and the overhanging rocks with the phoebes' nests in the crevices. Our Friend John Burroughs After a few weeks phoebe is seldom seen, except as she darts from her moss-covered nest beneath some bridge or shelving cliff. Wake-Robin Perhaps thirty feet below us we saw a phoebe perched on a dead twig that grew from a cleft in the rock. See America First By noon it begins to snow, and you hear the desolate cry of the phoebe- bird. Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Charles Dudley Warner The phoebe uses a mixture of mud and moss in plastering his large nest on some beam or rafter. Friends and Helpers In a niche in this earthy wall, and visible and accessible only from the water, a phoebe had built her nest, and reared her brood. Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers A pair of phoebes become attached to a spot where they have once nested; they never stray far from it, and return to it regularly, though they may not again occupy the old nest. Bird Neighbors It is very high and on its edges grow ferns, vines, and various wild flowers, and the phoebe builds her nest and fills all the space about with her sweet prophecy of spring. See America First You will know the phoebe by his note. Friends and Helpers Sparrows lighted on his shoulders when he called them; the phoebe birds built their nests in his shed, and the wild partridge with her brood came and fed quietly beneath his window. Friends and Helpers A Connecticut farmer took me out under his porch, one April day, and showed me a phoebe bird's nest six stories high. Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers It is the bird of the open plains, a tireless hunter in midair sallies from an isolated perch, and has the same vibrating motion of the tail that the Eastern phoebe indulges in when excited. Bird Neighbors The robin, the phoebe, and the barn and eave swallows are masons. Friends and Helpers When the first insects appear the phoebe comes to prevent them from growing too numerous. Friends and Helpers When we see gnats or small insects in the air we may expect the phoebe. Friends and Helpers When not domesticated, as these birds are rapidly becoming, the phoebes dearly love a cool, wet woodland retreat. Bird Neighbors Pewit, phoebe, phoebe; pewit, phoebe, they contentedly but rather monotonously sing as they investigate all the sites in the neighborhood. Bird Neighbors Without hearing this call-note one might often mistake the bird for either the wood pewee or the phoebe, for all the three are similarly clothed and have many traits in common. Bird Neighbors The slightly large size of the phoebe and pewee is not always apparent when they are seen perching on the trees. Bird Neighbors The phoebe belongs to the family of flycatchers. Friends and Helpers |
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