Field Guide to Birds of North America
Cuban Pewee
General
Cuban Pewee: Small flycatcher with gray upperparts, dark gray head with bushy crest and white crescent behind eye, and pale yellow underparts. Wings are dark with two faint bars. Upper mandible is black while lower mandible is yellow. Sexes are similar.
Range and Habitat
Cuban Pewee: Resident of northern Bahamas and Cuba; inhabits pine forests, woods, forest edges, tree plantations, brushy scrub, swamp edges, and mangroves.
Voice Text
"eeah, oweeeah, dee-dee"
Interesting Facts
The Cuban Pewee has the useful habit (for a photographer) of sallying to catch insects on the wing and then often returning to the same perch.
A group of pewees are collectively known as a "dribble" and a "squirt" of pewees.
Author
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Family
Flycatcher (Tyrannidae)_blue
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Species
Contopus caribaeus
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Length5.75 - 6.5
Inches
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Wingspan
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Cuban Pewee
Cuban Pewee: Small flycatcher, gray upperparts, dark gray head with bushy crest and white crescent behind eye, and pale yellow underparts. Wings are dark with two faint bars. Upper mandible is black while lower mandible is yellow. Legs and feet are black. Feeds mostly on small insects.
● Song: "eeah, oweeeah, dee-dee"
● Foraging & Feeding: Cuban Pewee: Feeds mostly on small insects, but also eats fruits.
● Breeding & nesting: Cuban Pewee: Two to four white eggs with dark brown or black spots are laid in a small, finely made cup of roots, hair, dried grass, lichens, and other soft materials, and lined with small feathers and plant materials.
● Similar species: Cuban Pewee: La Sagra's Flycatcher is larger, lacks white eye crescent, and has red-brown edged tail feathers.
Flight Pattern
Sallies from perch to hawk insects and returns to the same or nearby perch., Weak fluttering flight with shallow rapid wing beats.
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BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester
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Population
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MigrationNonmigratory
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Weight0.4 - 0.5
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