Length: 6.25 inches | Wingspan: 10.5 inches | Seasonality: Summer/Migrant |
ID Keys: Plain, with very faint wing-bars, and no eye-ring. Most safely identified by range and voice. |
The Western Wood-Pewee is a very plain gray bird with few
distinguishing marks, and is often only safely identified from similar
Flycatchers by it's voice and range. The eastern equivalent, the Eastern
Wood-Pewee, looks almost exactly alike. While they do overlap in range
in a narrow band in the center of the country, it has never been shown that the
two species interbreed with each other. They are normally only found in
the western part of South Dakota.
2) BirdWeb - Western Wood-pewee
3) Audubon Guide - Western Wood-pewee
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South Dakota Status: Common summer resident in the Black Hills, somewhat less common in other pine forests of the western part of the state. |