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Tropical Pewee

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Contopus cinereus

Includes: Tumbes Pewee

Photo by Robert ScanlonSanta Marta, Colombia, May 2004
Photo by Robert Scanlon
Santa Marta, Colombia, May 2004

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[edit] Identification

14 cm

  • Dark brown upperparts
  • Black crown
  • Two white wing bars
  • White throat and centre of the breast
  • Pale yellow belly
  • Greyish-brown sides of the flanks and breast
  • Short bill: black upper mandible; orange lower mandible

Sexes similar

[edit] Distribution

JuvenilePhoto by RKAMaraval, Trinidad, July 2012
Juvenile
Photo by RKA
Maraval, Trinidad, July 2012

Central and South America
Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Trinidad
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies

There are 8 subspecies[1]

  • C. c. brachytarsus (Short-legged):
  • Tropical south-eastern Mexico (Oaxaca and Veracruz) to Panama
  • C. c. rhizophorus:
  • Arid Pacific littoral of western Costa Rica (Guanacaste)
  • C. c. aithalodes:
  • C. c. bogotensis:
  • C. c. surinamensis:
  • Southern Venezuela to the Guianas and north-eastern Brazil
  • C. c. pallescens:
  • C. c. cinereus:
  • South-eastern Brazil (Bahia to Paraná) to eastern Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina
  • C. c. punensis:
  • Andes of Ecuador and northern Peru (south to Junín)
  • Split by Gill and Donsker (2010) as Tumbes Pewee C. punensis

[edit] Habitat

Lowlands to lower elevation on mountains in semi-deciduous forests and clearings, mixed pasture, wet fields and gardens, and even locally in mangrove.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Breeding

The female builds a small open saucer nest of fibre and grasses, lined with grass and decorated with lichen on its exterior. Two creamy-white eggs, marked with red-brown spots, are incubated by the female for 15-16 days.

[edit] Diet

The diet includes insects.

[edit] References

  1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
  2. Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2010. IOC World Bird Names (version 2.7). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
  3. Avibase
  4. Wikipedia

[edit] External Links

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