Pewee
| Pewees | |
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| Western wood pewee | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Tyrannidae |
| Genus: | Contopus Cabanis, 1855 |
| Species | |
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The genus Contopus is a group of small to medium-sized insect-eating birds in the Tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.
These birds are commonly 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.
There are fourteen recognized species:
- White-throated pewee, C. albogularis
- Cuban pewee, C. caribaeus
- Tropical pewee, C. cinereus
- Olive-sided flycatcher, C. cooperi
- Smoke-colored pewee, C. fumigatus
- Hispaniolan pewee, C. hispaniolensis
- Lesser Antillean pewee, C. latirostris
- Dark pewee, C. lugubris
- Blackish pewee, C. nigrescens
- Ochraceous pewee, C. ochraceus
- Jamaican pewee, C. pallidus
- Greater pewee, C. pertinax
- Western wood pewee, C. sordidulus
- Eastern wood pewee, C. virens
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