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wood pewee

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wood pewee
n.
Either of two small pewees, Contopus virens of the eastern United States or C. sordidulus of western North America, living in wooded areas.
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Noun1.wood pewee - small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North Americawood pewee - small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America
Contopus virens, pewee, peewee, peewit, pewit
New World flycatcher, tyrant bird, tyrant flycatcher, flycatcher - large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing
Contopus, genus Contopus - pewees
Contopus sordidulus, western wood pewee - small flycatcher of western North America
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Just a few feet away, a western wood pewee danced like an acrobat on a moss-covered limb thicker than a railroad tie that sloped gently back toward the ground.
Finding serenity 200 feet in the air by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
This list of forest songbirds includes, but is not limited to, the following: Eastern Wood Pewee (Contopus virens), Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mastelina), Cerulean Warbler (Dendroica cerulea), Black-and-white Warbler (Mniotilta varia), Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocappilus), Kentucky Warbler (Oporornis formosus), Hooded Warbler (Wilsonia citrina, and Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea).
Breeding bird communities in burned and unburned sites in a mature ... by LeBlanc, David C. / Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science
Elsewhere in the Rockies the growing demand for aspen might be affecting a number of neotropical migrants that favor aspen groves - the warbling vireo, orange-crowned warbler, western wood pewee, and dusky flycatcher among them.
Is forest management harming songbirds? by Simons, Jay / American Forests
 
 
 
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