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Western wood-pewee
Contopus sordidulus

Western wood-pewee

Size: 6 inches
Overall Color: grayish olive and white
Occurrence: open woods
Diet: insects
Nest: cup on limb far from tunk
Field Identification: flycatcher, olive gray upper, crest on head, lower mandible partially orange, two white wing bars
Season: summer


Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
Phylum: Chordata (hollow nerve cord)
Subphylum: Vertebrata (backbone)
Class: Aves (Birds)
Order: passeriformes
Family: 48 Tyrannidae (tyrant flycatchers)
Genus: Contopus
Species: sordidulus

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