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The Western Wood-Pewee

The Western Wood-Pewee will never win the Most Colorful Bird contest, but it does nonetheless reside in a family of much-beloved flycatchers that always impress with their personality and antics. It's an able flyer, and it needs to be to migrate all the way from South America to breed in an amazingly long corridor extending from Mexico all the way to Alaska. The Western Wood-Pewee prefers forests and forest edges, but will often turn up anywhere one finds a collection of good trees. Check out the eBird map below, which shows that the bird seems to have only come as far north as California thus far:

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