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Photo by Patrick O’Donnell
Dark Pewee near Tapanti National Park, Costa Rica, March 2009

Contopus lugubris

[edit] Identification

26.5cm.

• Sooty grey above
• Pale olive grey below
• Yellow lower belly
• Crown has prominent crest
• Pale grey throat
• Black wings with grey feather edges and a weak wing bar
• Black tail
• Sexes similar

Juvenile

• Browner above
• Rufous fringed wing feathers

[edit] Distribution

Costa Rica and western Panama.

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic.

[edit] Habitat

Wet mountain forests between 1250m and 2150m.

[edit] Behaviour

The female builds a broad, thick-walled saucer nest from moss and lichen, lined with plant fibres. 2 eggs are laid and are incubated by the female alone for 15-16 days.

The diet includes insects which are hawked aerially.

[edit] Vocalisation

Call: loud whip.

Song: repetitive fred-reek-fear.

[edit] References

Wikipedia

[edit] External Links