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Eastern wood pewee
Contopus virens · Family Tyrannidae
Contopus virens
Family Tyrannidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Tyrannidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 3,826,557
- Countries and territories with records
- 36
About this species
This species has 3,826,557 occurrence records from 36 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (86.2%) and Canada (9.5%); together they account for 95.7% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.3% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Contopus virens combines the genus name Contopus with the species epithet virens. The Warbla app catalog lists 16 species of the genus Contopus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Contopus sordidulus, Contopus cooperi and Contopus cinereus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 423 species of the family Tyrannidae. This species ranks 3rd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Sayornis phoebe. Its record count is 27.8 times the family average (137,762). The family Tyrannidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.