Western wood pewee
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Tyrannidae |
| Genus: | Contopus |
| Species: | C. sordidulus
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| Contopus sordidulus Sclater, PL, 1859
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Breeding Migration Nonbreeding
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The western wood pewee (Contopus sordidulus) is a small tyrant flycatcher. Adults are gray-olive on the upperparts[2] with light underparts, washed with olive on the breast. They have two wing bars and a dark bill with yellow at the base of the lower mandible. This bird is very similar in appearance to the eastern wood pewee; the two birds were formerly considered to be one species. The call of C. sordidulus is a loud buzzy peeer; the song consists of three rapid descending tsees ending with a descending peeer.
Description[edit]
Measurements:[3]
- Length: 5.5-6.3 in (14-16 cm)
- Weight: 0.4-0.5 oz (11-14 g)
- Wingspan: 10.2 in (26 cm)
Habitat and ecology[edit]
Their breeding habitat is open wooded areas in western North America. These birds migrate to South America at the end of summer.[how often?] The female lays two or three eggs in an open cup nest on a horizontal tree branch or within a tree cavity; California black oak forests are examples of suitable nesting habitat for this species of bird.[4] Both parents feed the young.
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).[relevant?]
References[edit]
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Western Wood-pewee Species Account
- C. Michael Hogan (2008) Quercus kelloggii, Globaltwitcher.com, ed. N. Stromberg
Line notes[edit]
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Contopus sordidulus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22699811A93748966. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22699811A93748966.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- ^ "Western Wood-Pewee Identification, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology". www.allaboutbirds.org. Retrieved 2020-09-27.
- ^ C. Michael Hogan, 2008
External links[edit]
- Videos, photos and sounds - Internet Bird Collection
- Photos - VIREO
- Photo-High Res[dead link]; Article – "Utah Birds"–(clickable Photo Gallery)
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- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Contopus
- Native birds of Western Canada
- Native birds of the Western United States
- Birds of Mexico
- Birds of the Sierra Madre Occidental
- Birds of the Sierra Madre Oriental
- Birds of the Sierra Madre del Sur
- Birds of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt
- Birds of Central America
- Birds described in 1859
- Taxa named by Philip Sclater