| Western wood pewee | |
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Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Tyrannidae |
| Genus: | Contopus |
| Species: | C. sordidulus |
| Binomial name | |
| Contopus sordidulus Sclater, PL, 1859 | |
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Breeding Migration Nonbreeding | |
Thewestern wood pewee (Contopus sordidulus) is a smalltyrant 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. Thisbird is very similar in appearance to theeastern wood pewee; the two birds were formerly considered to be one species. The call ofC. sordidulus is a loud buzzypeeer; the song consists of three rapid descendingtsees ending with a descendingpeeer.
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Their breeding habitat is open wooded areas in westernNorth America. These birdsmigrate toSouth America at the end of summer. The female lays two or threeeggs in an opencup 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 often wait on a perch at a middle height in a tree and fly out to catchinsects in flight (hawking), and will also hover to pluck insects from vegetation (gleaning).
