Western/Eastern Wood-Pewee - Ryan O'Donnell

ML161280711

Western/Eastern Wood-Pewee Contopus sordidulus/virens

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Location

Riparian Preserve at Gilbert Water Ranch
Maricopa, Arizona, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist
Map
Map Coordinates: 33.3614502, -111.7339478
Age
Not specified
Sex
Not specified

Observation details

Potential first county record found by Caleb Strand earlier the same day. Identification as Eastern Wood-Pewee based largely on the diagnostic vocalizations that Caleb heard about a dozen times before I arrived. It never called while I was present, but morphological features also supported the identification as EAWP, including: 1) Mostly pale lower mandible 2) Relatively long tail, with tail projection longer than primary projection 3) Tail consistently held low, below the plane of the wings 4) Wing bars relatively bold and white 5) Upper wing bar about equal to lower wing bar in boldness. A report of this bird as Eastern Wood-Pewee was submitted to the Arizona Bird Committee but was not accepted. I am removing this from EAWP to the "slash" option accordingly.

Technical information

Model
NIKON D5300
ISO
400
Focal length
500 mm
Flash
Flash did not fire
f-stop
f/6.3
Shutter speed
1/160 sec
Dimensions
3208 pixels x 2128 pixels
Original file size
4.26 MB