GALLERIES > BIRDS > PASSERIFORMES > TYRANNIDAE > WESTERN WOOD-PEWEE [Contopus sordidulus] [plot on map]
Location: South Fork (Chiricahua Mtns), AZGPS: 31.9N, -109.2W, elev=5,393' MAP Date: August 3, 2020 ID : B13K9622 [4896 x 3264]
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Location: South Fork (Chiricahua Mtns), AZGPS: 31.9N, -109.2W, elev=5,393' MAP Date: August 3, 2020 ID : B13K9680 [4896 x 3264]
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Location: Page Meadows, Lake Tahoe, CAGPS: 39.1N, -120.2W, elev=6,894' MAP Date: June 17, 2016 ID : B13K1952 [4896 x 3264]
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Location: South Fork (Chiricahua Mtns), AZGPS: 31.9N, -109.2W, elev=5,393' MAP Date: August 3, 2020 ID : B13K9616 [4896 x 3264]
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Location: South Fork (Chiricahua Mtns), AZGPS: 31.9N, -109.2W, elev=5,393' MAP Date: August 3, 2020 ID : B13K9632 [4896 x 3264]
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Location: South Fork (Chiricahua Mtns), AZGPS: 31.9N, -109.2W, elev=5,393' MAP Date: August 3, 2020 ID : B13K9650 [4896 x 3264]
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Location: South Fork (Chiricahua Mtns), AZGPS: 31.9N, -109.2W, elev=5,393' MAP Date: August 3, 2020 ID : B13K9655 [4896 x 3264]
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Location: South Fork (Chiricahua Mtns), AZGPS: 31.9N, -109.2W, elev=5,393' MAP Date: August 3, 2020 ID : B13K9665 [4896 x 3264]
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Location: Page Meadows, Lake Tahoe, CAGPS: 39.1N, -120.2W, elev=6,894' MAP Date: June 17, 2016 ID : B13K1939 [4896 x 3264]
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Location: Sycamore Canyon, AZGPS: 31.4N, -111.2W, elev=3,940' MAP Date: August 1, 2009 ID : 7C2V0891 [3888 x 2592]
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Location: Ramsey Canyon, AZGPS: 31.5N, -110.3W, elev=5,070' MAP Date: July 30, 2009 ID : 7C2V0304 [3888 x 2592]
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Location: Huntington Beach (Central Park), CA
Date: September 30, 2007
ID : 4215 [3888 x 2592]
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SPECIES INFO
The Western Wood-Pewee, Contopus sordidulus, is a small Tyrant flycatcher.
Adults are grey-olive on the upperparts with light underparts, washed with olive on the breast. They have two wing bars and a dark bill. This bird is very similar in appearance to the Eastern Wood-Pewee; the two birds were formerly considered to be one species.
Their breeding habitat is open wooded areas in western North America. The female lays 2 or 3 eggs in an open cup nest on a horizontal tree branch. Both parents feed the young.
These birds migrate to South America at the end of summer.
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.
The call is a loud clear peeer. The song consists of three rapid descending tsees ending with a descending peeer.
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