Western Wood Pewee
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| Contopus sordidulus (Sclater, 1859) |
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, sometimes hovering to pick insects from vegetation.
The call is a loud clear peeer. The song consists of three rapid descending tsees ending with a descending peeer.
[edit] References
- BirdLife International (2004). Contopus sordidulus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 12 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
[edit] 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
