western wood pewee

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western wood pewee - small flycatcher of western North America

Contopus virens, pewee, wood pewee, peewee, peewit, pewit - small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America

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Just a few feet away, a western wood pewee danced like an acrobat on a moss-covered limb thicker than a railroad tie that sloped gently back toward the ground.

Finding serenity 200 feet in the air

Elsewhere in the Rockies the growing demand for aspen might be affecting a number of neotropical migrants that favor aspen groves - the warbling vireo, orange-crowned warbler, western wood pewee, and dusky flycatcher among them.