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 LC    Eastern Wood-Pewee* Id (Atlas):
    Contopus virens

Description (10)
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Family
Tyrannidae (Tyrant-flycatchers)

Size
13.50 - 15 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Habitat
Temperate forest. From sea-level - 1,500 m, occasionally to 2,850 m.

Range (Guide)
Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada (B), Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, St Pierre and Miquelon (P), Turks and Caicos Islands, USA (B), Venezuela.

Vagrant to Barbados, Jamaica, Virgin Islands (U.S.).

Breeds south-eastern Canada (Saskatchewan east to Maritime Provinces) and southern in USA to south-central Texas, Gulf Coast states and central Florida. Winters mainly from Colombia and Venezuela south to northern Bolivia and western Brazil, casually as far northern as Costa Rica.
 
Population
Estimated population is 6,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (139)...)

 
Eastern Wood Pewee (Contopus virens) [XC524848]
     by Brendan Sloan from Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, La Vall\u00e9e-du-Richelieu, Qu\u00e9bec, Canada (song)

 
Eastern Wood Pewee (Contopus virens) [XC601024]
     by Christopher McPherson from Lancy Brook Wetlands Brookline \/ Mason, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States (song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Thought by some possibly to form a superspecies with Western Wood-Pewee (Contopus sordidulus) and Tropical Pewee (Contopus cinereus) and has been considered conspecific with Western Wood-Pewee (Contopus sordidulus).


References
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Files:
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