These birds are known as pewees, from the call of one of the more common members of this vocal group. They are generally charcoal-grey birds with wing bars that live in wooded areas.
Dominica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Puerto Rico, and Saint Lucia
ReferencesEdit
^Cabanis, Jean (1855). "Contopus virens Cab". Journal für Ornithologie (in German). 3 (18): 479.
^Jobling, J.A. (2018). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
^Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 8.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
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pewee, confused, with, magpie, larks, often, called, peewees, pewees, genus, contopus, small, medium, sized, insect, eating, birds, tyrant, flycatcher, family, tyrannidae, swestern, wood, pewee, contopus, sordidulus, scientific, classificationdomain, eukaryota. Not to be confused with magpie larks often called peewees The pewees are a genus Contopus of small to medium sized insect eating birds in the Tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae PeweesWestern wood pewee Contopus sordidulus Scientific classificationDomain EukaryotaKingdom AnimaliaPhylum ChordataClass AvesOrder PasseriformesFamily TyrannidaeGenus ContopusCabanis 1855Type speciesMuscicapa virensLinnaeus 1766SpeciesSee text These birds are known as pewees from the call of one of the more common members of this vocal group They are generally charcoal grey birds with wing bars that live in wooded areas The genus Contopus was introduced by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis in 1855 with the eastern wood pewee as the type species 1 The name of the genus combines the Ancient Greek words kontos pole or shaft and pous foot 2 The genus contains 16 species 3 Image Scientific name Common Name DistributionContopus cooperi Olive sided flycatcher Canada Alaska and the northeastern and western United StatesContopus pertinax Greater pewee central and southern Mexico south through Costa Rica and NicaraguaContopus lugubris Dark pewee Talamancan montane forests of Costa Rica and western Panama Contopus fumigatus Smoke colored pewee Argentina Bolivia Brazil Colombia Ecuador Guyana Peru and VenezuelaContopus ochraceus Ochraceous pewee Costa Rica and western PanamaContopus sordidulus Western wood pewee western North AmericaContopus virens Eastern wood pewee Central America and in the Andes region of northern South America Contopus cinereus Southern tropical pewee southern Brazil and Paraguay south to Argentina Contopus bogotensis Northern tropical pewee southeastern Mexico to northern South America from northern Colombia to northeastern Brazil Contopus punensis Tumbes pewee western Ecuador and western Peru Contopus albogularis White throated pewee Brazil French Guiana and Suriname Contopus nigrescens Blackish pewee Brazil Ecuador Guyana and Peru Contopus caribaeus Cuban pewee Cuba and the northern Bahamas Contopus hispaniolensis Hispaniolan pewee island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Contopus pallidus Jamaican pewee JamaicaContopus latirostris Lesser Antillean pewee Dominica Guadeloupe Martinique Puerto Rico and Saint LuciaReferences Edit Cabanis Jean 1855 Contopus virens Cab Journal fur Ornithologie in German 3 18 479 Jobling J A 2018 del Hoyo J Elliott A Sargatal J Christie D A de Juana E eds Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive Lynx Edicions Retrieved 1 July 2018 Gill Frank Donsker David eds 2018 Tyrant flycatchers World Bird List Version 8 2 International Ornithologists Union Retrieved 1 July 2018 External links Edit Media related to Contopus at Wikimedia Commons Data related to Contopus at Wikispecies This bird related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Pewee amp oldid 1138232439, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
