LC
Eastern Wood-pewee Contopus virens



Taxonomy

Taxonomic source(s)
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A., Fishpool, L.D.C., Boesman, P. and Kirwan, G.M. 2016. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 2: Passerines. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.
SACC. 2005 and updates. A classification of the bird species of South America. Available at: https://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBaseline.htm.

IUCN Red List criteria met and history
Red List criteria met
Critically Endangered Endangered Vulnerable
- - -

Red List history
Year Category Criteria
2021 Least Concern
2016 Least Concern
2012 Least Concern
2009 Least Concern
2008 Least Concern
2004 Least Concern
2000 Lower Risk/Least Concern
1994 Lower Risk/Least Concern
1988 Lower Risk/Least Concern
Species attributes

Migratory status full migrant Forest dependency medium
Land-mass type Average mass -
Range

Estimate Data quality
Extent of Occurrence (breeding/resident) 6,720,000 km2 medium
Extent of Occurrence (non-breeding) 5,650,000 km2 medium
Severely fragmented? no -
Population
Estimate Data quality Derivation Year of estimate
Population size 6500000 mature individuals poor estimated 2019
Population trend decreasing - estimated -
Rate of change over the past 10 years/3 generations (longer of the two periods) 8% - - -
Generation length 2.46 years - - -

Population justification: The global population is estimated to number 6,500,000 mature individuals (Partners in Flight 2019).

Trend justification: This species has been undergoing a moderate decline at an average rate of -1.3% per year between 1970 and 2017 (Partners in Flight 2019; Rosenberg et al. 2019). Short-term trends suggest that declines have slowed down slightly in recent years, amounting to 8% over the past ten years (Pardieck et al. 2018).


Country/territory distribution
Country/Territory Presence Origin Resident Breeding visitor Non-breeding visitor Passage migrant
Argentina extant vagrant yes
Aruba (to Netherlands) extant vagrant yes yes
Bahamas extant native yes
Barbados extant vagrant yes
Belize extant native yes
Bermuda (to UK) extant vagrant yes
Bolivia extant native yes
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (to Netherlands) extant vagrant yes yes
Brazil extant native yes
Canada extant native yes
Cayman Islands (to UK) extant native yes
Colombia extant native yes
Costa Rica extant native yes
Cuba extant native yes
CuraƧao (to Netherlands) extant native yes
Dominican Republic extant vagrant yes
Ecuador extant native yes
El Salvador extant native yes
Guadeloupe (to France) extant vagrant yes
Guatemala extant native yes
Honduras extant native yes
Jamaica extant vagrant
Mexico extant native yes
Nicaragua extant native yes
Panama extant native yes
Peru extant native yes
Portugal extant vagrant
Puerto Rico (to USA) extant vagrant
St Pierre and Miquelon (to France) extant vagrant yes
Turks and Caicos Islands (to UK) extant native yes
USA extant native yes yes
Venezuela extant native yes
Virgin Islands (to USA) extant vagrant yes

Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBA)
Country/Territory IBA Name

Habitats & altitude
Habitat (level 1) Habitat (level 2) Importance Occurrence
Forest Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland suitable non-breeding
Forest Subtropical/Tropical Swamp suitable non-breeding
Forest Temperate major breeding
Shrubland Subtropical/Tropical Moist suitable non-breeding
Altitude 0 - 1500 m Occasional altitudinal limits (max) 2850 m

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Eastern Wood-pewee Contopus virens. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/eastern-wood-pewee-contopus-virens on 22/12/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 22/12/2024.