Greater Pewee (Contopus pertinax)

Other Names (World)
Greater Pewee, Coues's Flycatcher

Family
Tyrannidae (Tyrant-flycatchers)

Size
20 cm

First Described (Guide)
Cabanis & Heine, 1859

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical montane moist forest. From 250 - 3,500 m.

Range (Guide)

Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, USA (B).

Population
Estimated population is 2,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (88)...)

Greater Pewee (Contopus pertinax) [XC686070]
by Manuel Grosselet from Rancho Tierra Colorada, Mexico (call)

Greater Pewee (Contopus pertinax) [XC447707]
by Richard E. Webster from Mesa El Campanero, Y\u00e9cora, Sonora, Mexico (dawn song)

Subspecies
Formerly placed in genus Myiochanes. May form a superspecies with Dark Pewee (Contopus lugubris) and Smoke-colored Pewee (Contopus fumigatus), and formerly treated as a subspecies of Smoke-colored Pewee (Contopus fumigatus). Geographical plumage variation slight and clinal, and populations also differ in voice. Further study is needed. Pale-bellied birds from north of range sometimes separated as subspecies pallidiventris, but better merged with nominate.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

pertinax Cabanis & Heine, 1859 - Breeds south-western USA (central and south-western Arizona, south-western New Mexico) and western and central Mexico (south to Isthmus of Tehuantepec). Winters south to Guatemala and Belize.
minor (Miller, W & Griscom, 1925) - Southern Mexico (mainly east of Isthmus of Tehuantepec), Guatemala and Belize south to north-central Nicaragua.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Greater Pewee (Contopus pertinax) - 10 files

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