#1413 · 🐦 birds

Western Wood-Pewee

🇳🇱 Westelijke Bospiewie ·Contopus sordidulus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Ad Konings · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Braxton L. · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Braxton L. · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Steven Mlodinow · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © JerryFriedman · CC BY-SA 4.0
6. © Arthur Chapman · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
7. Coronado National Forest, Hereford, AZ, US:© John Landers · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Point Loma, San Diego, CA, USA:© sglevanik · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Sherwood Heights, Scottsdale, AZ, USA:© Allison Shock · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Adams County, CO, USA:© Isaac Boardman · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

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 ;...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 22,843iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
22,843 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Philip Sclater in 1859 (167 years ago).