Blackish Pewee - BirdForum Opus

Photo by arthurgrosset
Carajás, Pará, Brazil, February 2002

Contopus nigrescens

Identification

• Uniform dark grey
• Upper mandible is black while its lower one is yellow

Distribution

South America: found in Guyana, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil.

Taxonomy

Subspecies^[1]

There are 2 subspecies:

• C. n. nigrescens:

• Eastern slope of Andes of Ecuador (Napo-Pastaza and Santiago-Zamora)

• C. n. canescens:

• Eastern Peru (south to Cuzco); southern Guyana (Acari Mts.) and eastern Amazonian Brazil

Habitat

Moist forests and montanes.

Behaviour

Perches high in the forest canopy.

References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Avibase
3. BF Member observations

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Blackish Pewee. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 3 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Blackish_Pewee

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