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| | ==Distribution== | | ==Distribution== |
| | + | [[Image:Tropical_Pewee_juvenile_by_RKA.jpg|thumb|350px|right|'''Juvenile'''<br />Photo by {{user|RKA|RKA}}<br />Maraval, [[Trinidad]], July 2012]] |
| | [[Central America|Central]] and [[South America]]<br /> | | [[Central America|Central]] and [[South America]]<br /> |
| | '''Central America''': [[Mexico]], [[Guatemala]], [[Belize]], [[El Salvador]], [[Honduras]], [[Nicaragua]], [[Costa Rica]], [[Panama]] and [[Trinidad]]<br /> | | '''Central America''': [[Mexico]], [[Guatemala]], [[Belize]], [[El Salvador]], [[Honduras]], [[Nicaragua]], [[Costa Rica]], [[Panama]] and [[Trinidad]]<br /> |
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| | *''C. c. punensis'': | | *''C. c. punensis'': |
| | :*Andes of [[Ecuador]] and northern Peru (south to Junín) | | :*Andes of [[Ecuador]] and northern Peru (south to Junín) |
| - | :*Split by Gill and Donsker (2010) as Tumbes Pewee ''C. punensis'' | + | :*Split by Gill and Donsker (2010) as Tumbes Pewee ''C. punensis'' |
| | ==Habitat== | | ==Habitat== |
| - | Mountain semi-deciduous forests and clearings. Mixed pasture, wet fields and gardens. | + | Lowlands to lower elevation on mountains in semi-deciduous forests and clearings, mixed pasture, wet fields and gardens, and even locally in mangrove. |
| | ==Behaviour== | | ==Behaviour== |
| | ====Breeding==== | | ====Breeding==== |
Current revision
- Contopus cinereus
Includes: Tumbes Pewee
[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
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
- Arid Pacific littoral of western Costa Rica (Guanacaste)
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- Southern Venezuela to the Guianas and north-eastern Brazil
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- South-eastern Brazil (Bahia to Paraná) to eastern Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina
- 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.
The diet includes insects.
[edit] References
- 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.
- Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2010. IOC World Bird Names (version 2.7). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
- Avibase
- Wikipedia
[edit] External Links
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