Eastern Wood-Pewee

A small brown flycatcher with two prominent wingbars. Lacks the buffy underparts of the Lesser Antillean Pewee. Length: 16 cm.; weight: 15 g. Audio 2 (M. Oberle). Breeds in eastern North America; winters in northwestern South America. Accidental in the Virgin Islands on migration, but may eventually be reported from Puerto Rico.

TAXONOMY: PASSERIFORMES; TYRANNIDAE; Fluvicolinae

References

Arendt, W.J. 1992. Status of North American migrant landbirds in the Caribbean region: a summary. Pp. 143-171 in Ecology and conservation of neotropical migrant landbirds (J.M. Hagan III and D.W. Johnston, eds.) Smithsonian Instit. Press, Washington, D.C.

Bent, A.C. 1942. Life histories of North American flycatchers, larks, swallows, and their allies. Smithsonian Instit. U.S. National Museum Bull. 179. (Reprinted by Dover Press, NY, 1963).

Ehrlich, P.R., D.S. Dobkin, and D. Wheye. 1988. The birderÆs handbook: a field guide to the natural history of North American birds. Simon and Schuster/ Fireside, NY.

McCarty, J. P. 1996. Eastern Wood-Pewee (Contopus virens). No. 245 in The birds of North America (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, PA, and Am. Ornithol. Union, Washington, D.C.

Raffaele, H.A. 1989. A guide to the birds of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Princeton.

Raffaele, H.A. 1989. Una guía a las aves de Puerto Rico y las Islas Vírgenes. Publishing Resources, Inc., Santurce, PR.

Raffaele, H.A., J.W. Wiley, O.H. Garrido, A.R. Keith, and J.I. Raffaele. 1998. Guide to the birds of the West Indies. Princeton.

Sladen, F.W. 1993. First record of Eastern Wood-Pewee, Contopus virens (Aves: Tyrannidae), in the Virgin Islands. El Pitirre 6(2):2.

Eastern Wood-Pewee, Spanish text

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