Eastern Wood Pewee

Eastern Wood Pewee

Eastern Wood Pewee Sound

The Eastern Wood Pewee latin name is Contopus virens. They can be found all over North America. Their preferred habitat is dense forests, forest edges, mature woodlands, orchards, riversides, shrubby areas and forest edges. The Eastern Wood Pewees breed from May through August. Eastern Wood Pewee eggs, which are laid three or four at a time, are white/translucent in color. These birds winter in South America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Their population is slightly declining but still of least concern.

The Eastern Wood Pewee can be found at Coal Creek Farm from April through October. The Eastern Wood Pewee call is a distinctive, slurred pee-a-wee call, which lasts about 1 second with the last note trailing off. Many times, there is confusion between an Eastern Wood Pewee vs. Eastern Phoebe. Eastern Phoebes have darker brown upper parts and no wing bars while Eastern Wood Pewees are grayer with grayish wingbars. The Eastern Wood Pewee diet consists of berries, flies, wasps, bees, winged ants, beetles, moths, grasshoppers, spiders, and millipedes. They are very small, weighing about 0.4-0.7 ounces.

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