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Common Name

Eastern Wood Pewee

Alternate Names

Common Type

Pewee

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Tyrannidae

Genus

Contopus

Species

virens

Conservation Status

Least Concern

Location Photographed

Eastern Wood Peewe Kansas, Texas,

Number of Sub-Species

0

Migratory or Resident

Migratory

Preferred Habitat

Open woody areas

Distribution and Range

Breeds in eastern US and south eastern Canada, winters in north western South America

Food

From a perch they will spot and hawk flying insects to eat

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Field Notes:

Visually indistinguishable from the Western Wood Pewee and used to be considered a single species. Their song is entirely different

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