Western wood pewee

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Western wood pewee
Contopus sordidulus 1.jpg

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Contopus
Species:
C. sordidulus
Binomial name
Contopus sordidulus
(Sclater, 1859)
Contopus sordidulus map.svg

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[]

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[]

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[]

Line notes[]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Contopus sordidulus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. ^ Cornell Lab of Ornithology
  3. ^ "Western Wood-Pewee Identification, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology". www.allaboutbirds.org. Retrieved 2020-09-27.
  4. ^ C. Michael Hogan, 2008

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