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Western Wood Pewee
The Western Wood-Pewee, Contopus sordidulus, is a small Tyrant flycatcher.
Adults are grey-olive on the upperparts with light underparts, washed with olive on the breast. They have two wing bars and a dark bill. This bird is very similar in appearance to the Eastern Wood-Pewee; the two birds were formerly considered to be one species.
Their breeding habitat is open wooded areas in western North America. The female lays 2 or 3 eggs in an open cup nest on a horizontal tree branch. Both parents feed the young.
These birds migrate to South America at the end of summer.
They wait on a perch at a middle height in a tree and fly out to catch insects in flight-(hawking), sometimes hovering to pick insects from vegetation, (gleaning).
The call is a loud clear peeer. The song consists of three rapid descending tsees ending with a descending peeer.
References
Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
External links
Western Wood-pewee Species Account - Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Western Wood-pewee - Contopus sordidulus - USGS Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter
Western Wood-pewee Information - South Dakota Birds and Birding
Western Wood-Pewee videos on the Internet Bird Collection
"Western Wood-Pewee" photo gallery VIREO Photo-High Res--(Close-up)
Photo-High Res; Article – "Utah Birds"–(clickable Photo Gallery)
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