Western Wood-Pewee Images

Western Wood-Pewee Images, Facts and Information:

Contopus sordidulus

• Western Wood-Pewees are medium sized flycatchers with olive-gray upperparts, pale olive-gray underparts, dusky breasts, grayish throats, dark caps with slight crests. Western Wood-Pewees are nearly identical to Eastern Wood-Pewees.
• Western Wood-Pewees are migratory. Western Wood-Pewees breed from southeastern Alaska, the Northwest Territories, Manitoba south to California and Mexico and east to Nebraska. These pewees spend the winter in the tropics. They prefer habitats that include woodlands, woodland edges, and orchards.
• Western Wood-Pewees eat insects with berries being consumed on occasion.
• Western Wood-Pewees lay 2 to 4 eggs which hatch in 12 to 13 days. The females incubate and they are monogamous.
• A group of pewees can be called a “squirt” or “dribble” of pewees.
• Western Wood-Pewees can live to be more than 8 years old.

I hope you enjoy viewing my Western Wood-Pewee photos.