Greater pewee Contopus pertinax

Identification Tips:

• Length: 6 inches
• Large, triangular head
• Gray upperparts
• Fairly large bill with orange lower mandible
• Breast somewhat darker than throat
• Yellowish belly and undertail coverts
• Indistinct wing bars
• United States range is parts of Arizona and New Mexico
• Commonly feeds by flying out to catch insects and returning to same perch

Similar species:

The Olive-sided Flycatcher is similar to the Greater Pewee but has darker sides, darker bill, and white patches above the wings (not always visible). Western Wood-Pewee is smaller with a darker bill. Empidonax flycatchers are much smaller.

Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.