Black Phoebe
Sayornis nigricans
Family: Tyrant flycatchers
Black Phoebe is one of the species in the BirdGuess catalog. The daily puzzle hides a photo and opens it in pieces. You get five guesses.
Did you know
It makes an open cup nest which is placed under a cliff or a bridge and cemented in its place with mud.
It is a passerine bird in the tyrant-flycatcher family.
The genus name was given by George Robert Gray of the British Museum, and is named after Thomas Say, an American naturalist.