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Wood Pewee
Wood pewee or peewee may refer to the following species formerly considered to be a single species: * Eastern wood pewee, ''Contopus virens'' * Western wood pewee, ''Contopus sordidulus'' {{Animal common name Birds by common name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Wood Pewee
The western wood pewee (''Contopus sordidulus'') 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. The call of ''C. sordidulus'' is a loud buzzy ''peeer''; the song consists of three rapid descending ''tsee''s ending with a descending ''peeer''. Description Measurements: * Length: 5.5-6.3 in (14-16 cm) * Weight: 0.4-0.5 oz (11-14 g) * Wingspan: 10.2 in (26 cm) Habitat and ecology Their breeding habitat is open wooded areas in western North America. These birds migrate to South America at the end of summer. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Wood Pewee
The eastern wood pewee (''Contopus virens'') is a small tyrant flycatcher from North America. This bird and the western wood pewee (''C. sordidulus'') were formerly considered a single species. The two species are virtually identical in appearance, and can be distinguished most easily by their calls. Taxonomy In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the eastern wood pewee in his ''Ornithologie'' based on a specimen collected in the Carolinas. He used the French name ''Le gobe-mouche cendré de la Coroline'' and the Latin ''Muscicapa Carolinensis cinerea''. Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his ''Systema Naturae'' for the twelfth edition, he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson. One of these was the eastern wood pewee. Linnaeus in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |