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Western wood-pewees nest in mountain forests, but move through lower-elevation areas during migration. The bird in the lower photos was hawking insects from willow twigs at the edge of a sagebrush flat. The other pictures were taken in typical nesting habitat: aspen woodlands. These birds were along Convict Creek and McGee Creek, both in the eastern Sierra Nevada in Mono County, California. Western wood-pewees are almost identical in appearance and behavior to their eastern relatives, the eastern wood-pewee |
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