Cuban Pewee

Contopus caribaeus Order: PASSERIFORMES Family: Flycatchers (Tyrannidae)
Cuban Pewee Breeding Male Portrait
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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

Gary Owen Dick

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Range Map for Cuban Pewee

Related Birds

Olive-sided Flycatcher
Western Wood-Pewee
Greater Pewee
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Eastern Phoebe
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Family Flycatcher (Tyrannidae)_blue
Species Contopus caribaeus
Length5.75 - 6.5 Inches
Wingspan Inches

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.
Cuban Pewee Breeding Male Body Illustration
● Range & Habitat: Cuban Pewee: Resident of northern Bahamas and Cuba; inhabits pine forests, woods, forest edges, tree plantations, brushy scrub, swamp edges, and mangroves.
BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester
Population
MigrationNonmigratory
Weight0.4 - 0.5 Ounces