Stats

Lifespan

2-9 yrs

Size

Small

Diet

Insectivore

Activity

Diurnal

Social

Solitary

Biome

Desert

Range

North America

Movement

Flight

Breeding

Egg-laying

Defense

Camouflage

Status

Common

About

Say's Phoebe is a common bird across western North America that prefers dry, desolate areas. It is a passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family, Tyrannidae, and was named for Thomas Say, an American naturalist.

Life cycle

1. 1.
   egg

   A small clutch of speckled eggs is incubated in a cup nest, turned and kept warm by the parent.
2. 2.
   hatchling

   A pink, blind hatchling is fed by its parents in the nest, gaping its bill at every visit.
3. 3.
   juvenile

   A feathered juvenile fledges from the nest, learning to fly and to forage close to its parents.
4. 4.
   adult

   Fully grown with adult plumage and song.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Tyrannidae

Genus

Sayornis

Species

Sayornis saya