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0.905 (0.162 - 1.69)|
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Excerpts Adapted from the Birds of Saskatchewan:
Originally restricted to wooded valleys in the extreme south of Saskatchewan, Westerns gradually became common on the Canadian prairies after European settlement led to the planting of farm shelterbelts and railway station gardens during the early decades of the 20th century. Today Western Kingbirds remain ubiquitous across the prairies, north locally into the transition forest (Smith 1996). Its range includes the western half of the US and adjacent portions of Canada and Mexico with wintering along the Pacific Coast from Jalisco in Mexico to Costa Rica.
This species favours open habitats with small patches of woods nearby, often within towns, villages, farmyards, shelterbelts, and treed cemeteries, and shrubby habitat in native prairie and within coulees.
The Western Kingbird is a fairly common to common summer resident south of the boreal (Smith 1996).
Original text by Robert D. Wapple and Lorrie Sielski. Text adapted by Daniel J. Sawatzky
Read more about the Western Kingbird in the Birds of Saskatchewan here.
Recommended citation: Latremouille, L. M. 2025. Western Kingbird in Latremouille, L. M., S. L. Van Wilgenburg, C. B. Jardine, D. Lepage, A. R. Couturier, D. Evans, D. Iles, and K. L. Drake (eds.). 2025. The Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Saskatchewan, 2017-2021. Birds Canada. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan https://sk.birdatlas.ca/accounts/speciesaccount.jsp?sp=WEKI&lang=en [09 Nov 2025]
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