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western wood pewee

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| image = Western Wood-Peewee - Sisters - Oregon S4E1878 (19236709745).jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Contopus sordidulus |volume=2016 |page=e.T22699811A93748966 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22699811A93748966.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| genus = Contopus

| species = sordidulus

| authority = Sclater, PL, 1859

| range_map = Contopus sordidulus map.svg

| range_map_caption = {{leftlegend|#FF7F2A|Breeding}}{{leftlegend|#FFDD55|Migration}}{{leftlegend|#5F8DD3|Nonbreeding}}

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The western wood pewee (Contopus sordidulus) is a small tyrant flycatcher. Adults are gray-olive on the upperpartsCornell Lab of Ornithology 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:{{Cite web|title=Western Wood-Pewee Identification, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology|url=https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Western_Wood-Pewee/id|access-date=2020-09-27|website=www.allaboutbirds.org|language=en}}

  • Length: {{cvt|5.5|-|6.3|in|cm}}
  • Weight: {{cvt|0.4|-|0.5|oz|g}}
  • Wingspan: {{cvt|10.2|in|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. 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.C. Michael Hogan, 2008 Both parents feed the young.

Behavior

They often wait on a perch at a middle height in a tree and fly out to catch insects in flight (hawking), and will also hover to pluck insects from vegetation (gleaning).

References

  • [http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Western_Wood-Pewee.html Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Western Wood-pewee Species Account]
  • C. Michael Hogan (2008) [https://web.archive.org/web/20120218215957/http://globaltwitcher.auderis.se/artspec_information.asp?thingid=82385 Quercus kelloggii, Globaltwitcher.com, ed. N. Stromberg]

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External links

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{{Wikispecies|Contopus sordidulus}}

  • [http://ibc.hbw.com/ibc/phtml/especie.phtml?idEspecie=4983 Videos, photos and sounds] - Internet Bird Collection
  • [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/search.html?Form=Search&SEARCHBY=Scientific&KEYWORDS=contopus+sordidulus&showwhat=images&AGE=All&SEX=All&ACT=All&Search=Search&VIEW=All&ORIENTATION=All&RESULTS=24 Photos] - VIREO
  • [http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~drintoul/sabbatical_images/images/western_wood_pewee_s.jpg Photo-High Res]{{dead link|date=August 2014}}; [https://web.archive.org/web/20070209062840/http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~drintoul/sabbatical_images/utahbirds.htm Article] – "Utah Birds"–(clickable Photo Gallery)

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western wood pewee

Category:Native birds of Western Canada

Category:Native birds of the Western United States

Category:Meso-American montane bird species

Category:Wintering birds of South America

western wood pewee

western wood pewee