Eastern wood-pewee Contopus virens
Identification Tips:
Length: 5.25 inches
Triangular head
Grayish-olive upperparts
Dark bill is yellow at base of lower mandible
Breast has olive wash
Whitish throat, belly and undertail coverts ...
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Contopus virens
The Eastern Wood-Pewee (Contopus virens) nests widely across the eastern half of the United States and Canada.
The Eastern Wood-Pewee is a very plain gray bird with few distinguishing marks, and is often only safely identified from similar Flycatchers by it's voice and range. The Western equivalent, the Western Wood-Pewee, looks almost exactly alike.
Eastern Wood-Pewee
(Contopus virens)
Status: Summer Resident.
Last recorded on site in 2010
Breeding Status:-
1987 to 1991: Likely but not confirmed
1992 to 1996: Likely but not confirmed
1997 to 2001: Confirmed ...
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Contopus virens (Linnaeus)
Status Fairly common in summer. Breeds.
Eastern Wood-Pewee Contopus virens. Breeder. Common to fairly common in spring, summer, and fall in all regions. Found in open woodlands, parks, and along forest edges. Low Conservation Concern.
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Summer Sighting Information: common
Nest on or near Refuge? yes
Red-necked Phalarope
Summer Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? no ...
Eastern Wood-Pewee (Contopus virens) - Grayson Co., VA 9/23/07
Gray Flycatcher (Empidonax wrightii). First North Carolina record, Chatham Co., NC.
Say's Phoebe (Sayornis saya) - Carteret Co., NC 12/2/05 ...
Other flycatching birds, such as eastern phoebes (Sayornis phoebe), eastern wood-pewees (Cantopus virens), eastern kingbirds (Tyrannus tyrannus), tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor), southern rough-winged swallows (Stelgidopteryx ruficollis), ...
[...] expeditions, and they are joined by Eastern Wood-Pewees (one is still singing!) and unidentifiable Empidonax flycatchers. I even tracked down my first-ever-in-Queens Olive-sided Flycatcher the other [...] ...
Usu on horizontal limb far from trunk; larger, deeper than that of Eastern Wood-Pewee, well camouflaged but usu without lichen, of plant fibers, plant down, often bound to branch with spider webs, lined with fine materials.
EGGS: ...
THE WOOD PEWEE.
[Eastern Wood-Pewee.]
MUSCICAPA VIRENS, Linn.
[Contopus virens.] ...
The Western Wood-pewee breeds throughout western North America except in the Arctic. Its range only overlaps with the Eastern wood-pewee in southern, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
Eastern Wood-pewee (Contopus virens)
Gray Kingbird (Tyrannus dominicensis)
Great Crested Flycatcher (Myiarchus crinitus)
Least Flycatcher (Empidonax minimus)
Olive-sided Flycatcher (Contopus cooperi)
Say's Phoebe (Sayornis saya) ...
 See also: Wood-Pewee, Pewee, Flycatcher, Phoebe, Eastern Phoebe
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