Greater pewee
Contopus pertinax
Identification Tips:
- 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.