Western Wood Pewee

Contopus sordidulus

The western wood pewee is a small tyrant flycatcher. Adults are gray-olive on the upperparts 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.
Contopus sordidulus Dapa, Valle Del Cauca 2100m Contopus sordidulus,Western wood pewee

Appearance

Measurements:

⤷  Length: 5.5-6.3 in
⤷  Weight: 0.4-0.5 oz
⤷  Wingspan: 10.2 in
Western Wood peewee Contopus sordidulus,Geotagged,Spring,United States

Behavior

The call of "C. sordidulus" is a loud buzzy "peeer"; the song consists of three rapid descending "tsee"s ending with a descending "peeer".
Western Wood Pewee, La Isla Escondida, Colombia Colombia,Colombia 2024,Contopus sordidulus,Fall,Geotagged,La Isla Escondida,South America,Western wood pewee,World

Habitat

Their breeding habitat is open wooded areas in western North America. These birds migrate to South America at the end of summer.

Reproduction

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. Both parents feed the young.

Food

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.

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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionChordata
ClassAves
OrderPasseriformes
FamilyTyrannidae
GenusContopus
SpeciesC. sordidulus
Photographed in
Colombia
United States of America