Western Wood Pewee

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Western Wood Pewee

The Western Wood-Pewee, Contopus sordidulus, is a small tyrant flycatcher

Tyrant flycatcher

The tyrant flycatchers are a family of passerine birds which occur throughout North America and South America, but are mainly Neotropical in distribution....
. 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

Bird

Birds are wing, Bipedalismal, endothermic , vertebrate animals that lay egg . There are around 10,000 living species, making them the most numerous tetrapod vertebrates....
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.

Habitat and ecology
Their breeding habitat is open wooded areas in western North America

North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
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The Western Wood-Pewee, Contopus sordidulus, is a small tyrant flycatcher

Tyrant flycatcher

Bird

Habitat and ecology

Their breeding habitat is open wooded areas in western North America

North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
. These birds migrate

Bird migration

Bird migration refers to the regular seasonal journeys undertaken by many species of birds. Bird movements include those made in response to changes in food availability, habitat or weather....
to South America

South America

South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere....
at the end of summer. The female lays two or three egg

Egg (biology)

In most birds and reptiles, an egg is the zygote, resulting from fertilization of the ovum. To enable incubation the egg is usually kept within a favourable temperature range as it nourishes and protects the growing embryo....
s in an open cup nest on a horizontal tree branch or within a tree cavity; California black oak

California Black Oak

California Black Oak , also known as simply Black Oak, or Kellogg Oak, is an oak in the red oaks , native to western North America. It is a close relative of the Black Oak found in eastern and central North America....
forests are examples of suitable nesting habitat for this species of bird. Both parents feed the young.

They wait on a perch at a middle height in a tree and fly out to catch insect

Insect

Insects are the biggest class of arthropods and the only ones with wings. They are the most diverse group of animals on the planet. They are most diverse at the equator and their diversity declines toward the poles....
s in flight (hawking

Hawking (birds)

Hawking, or hawking insects, is the primary feeding strategy for some birds, including most typical nightjars and some Old World flycatchers, monarch flycatchers, and tyrant flycatchers....
), sometimes hovering to pick insects from vegetation (gleaning

Gleaning (birds)

Gleaning, or gleaning insects, is a common feeding strategy for some groups of birds, including most flycatchers. This behaviour can be contrasted with hawking ....
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External links

- South Dakota Birds and Birding
on the Internet Bird Collection
VIREO
; – "Utah Birds"–(clickable Photo Gallery)