Pewee

Pewees
	Western wood pewee (Contopus sordidulus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Tyrannidae
Genus:	Contopus; Cabanis, 1855
Type species
	Muscicapa virens; Linnaeus, 1766
Species
	See text.

The pewees are a genus, Contopus, of small to medium-sized insect-eating birds in the Tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.

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]

Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
Contopus cooperi	Olive-sided flycatcher	Canada, Alaska and the northeastern and western United States
Contopus pertinax	Greater pewee	central and southern Mexico south through Costa Rica and Nicaragua
Contopus 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 Venezuela
Contopus ochraceus	Ochraceous pewee	Costa Rica and western Panama
Contopus sordidulus	Western wood pewee	western North America
Contopus 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	Jamaica
Contopus latirostris	Lesser Antillean pewee	Dominica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Puerto Rico, and Saint Lucia

References[edit]

^ 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.

External links[edit]

Media related to Contopus at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Contopus at Wikispecies

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[1] Cabanis, Jean (1855). "Contopus virens Cab". Journal für Ornithologie (in German). 3 (18): 479.

[hbwkey-2] 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.

[ioc-3] 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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