Cuban Pewee

About the Cuban Pewee

The Cuban pewee or crescent-eyed pewee (Contopus caribaeus) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Cuba and the Bahamas. The Cuban pewee and what are now the Hispaniolan pewee (C. hispaniolensis) and Jamaican pewee (C. pallidus) were formerly treated as one species, the Greater Antillean pewee. They were separated following a study published in 1993 that detailed differences in their vocalizations, plumage, and measurements.

The Cuban pewee has these four subspecies: C. c. bahamensis (Bryant, H, 1859) C. c. caribaeus (d'Orbigny, 1839) C. c. morenoi Burleigh & Duvall, 1948 C. c. nerlyi Garrido, 1978 The Cuban pewee is 15 to 16.5 cm (5.9 to 6.5 in) long and weighs 8.5 to 13.5 g (0.30 to 0.48 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies C. c. caribaeus have a dark olive-gray crown with a slight crest, slightly paler olive-gray lores, and a whitish crescent around the back of the eye on an otherwise olive-brown face. Their back is also olive-brown. Their wings are dusky brown with pale tips on the coverts that show as two faint wing bars. The wing's outer secondaries... Wikipedia →