Eastern Wood-pewee
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Contopus
Species: C. virens
General Characteristics: A medium-sized flycatcher; dull grayish olive nearly throughout, with a dusky "vested" appearance below, two pale wing-bars. Compared with similar, dull flycatchers, the wood-pewee lacks a black cap or conspicuous eye-ring, has longer, more pointed wings, and shows dark markings on the undertail coverts (diagnostic).
Special Adaptations: In a forest where several flycatcher species are found, the Eastern Wood-Pewee forages higher in the trees than the Least and Acadian flycatchers, but lower down than the Great Crested Flycatcher.
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