Phoebes
Sayornis
The genus Sayornis is a small group of medium-sized insect-eating birds, known as phoebes, in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae. The genus name Sayornis is constructed from the specific part of Charles Lucien Bonaparte's name for Say's phoebe, Muscicapa saya, and Ancient Greek ornis, "bird". The English Phoebe is a name for the Roman moon-goddess Diana.
5 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 3 known species
Eastern Phoebe
speciesSayornis phoebe
Black Phoebe
speciesSayornis nigricans
Say's Phoebe
speciesSayornis saya
Black × Eastern Phoebe
hybridSayornis nigricans × phoebe
Black × Say's Phoebe
hybridSayornis nigricans × saya
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 17007.