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Eastern Wood-Peewee
An eastern wood-peewee landing on one of the haunting 49 tall Atlantic white cedar tree of Maya Lin's Ghost Forest exhibit at Madison Square Park.
Eastern Wood-Pewees are medium-sized flycatchers with long wings and tails. Like other pewee species, they have short legs, upright posture, and a peaked crown that tends to give the head a triangular shape. Their long wings are an important clue to separate them from Empidonax flycatcher species.
Eastern Wood-Pewees are olive-gray birds with dark wings, and little to no yellow on the underparts. The sides of the breast are dark with an off-white throat and belly, giving a vested appearance typical of pewees. They show little or no eyering. Adults have thin, white wingbars; those of juveniles are buffy.
Eastern Wood-Pewees are sit-and-wait predators that sally out from arboreal perches after insects and return to the same or a nearby perch. Like other members of their genus, they often perch high in trees, generally in fairly exposed places providing good viewpoints.
Eastern Wood-Peewee
An eastern wood-peewee landing on one of the haunting 49 tall Atlantic white cedar tree of Maya Lin's Ghost Forest exhibit at Madison Square Park.
Eastern Wood-Pewees are medium-sized flycatchers with long wings and tails. Like other pewee species, they have short legs, upright posture, and a peaked crown that tends to give the head a triangular shape. Their long wings are an important clue to separate them from Empidonax flycatcher species.
Eastern Wood-Pewees are olive-gray birds with dark wings, and little to no yellow on the underparts. The sides of the breast are dark with an off-white throat and belly, giving a vested appearance typical of pewees. They show little or no eyering. Adults have thin, white wingbars; those of juveniles are buffy.
Eastern Wood-Pewees are sit-and-wait predators that sally out from arboreal perches after insects and return to the same or a nearby perch. Like other members of their genus, they often perch high in trees, generally in fairly exposed places providing good viewpoints.