Cuban Pewee

Cuban Pewee
Cuban Pewee
Contopus caribaeus caribaeus
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Contopus
Species: C. caribaeus
Binomial name
Contopus caribaeus
(D'Orbigny, 1839)

The Cuban Peewee or Crescent-eyed Pewee[1] (Contopus caribaeus) is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family. It is found in Cuba and the northern Bahamas. It was formerly lumped with the Hispaniolan Pewee (C. hispaniolensis) and Jamaican Pewee (C. pallidus) as a single species, the Greater Antillean Pewee.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and heavily degraded former forest.[2]

References

  1. ^ Tise, Larry E. (2002). Pennsbury Manor: Pennsylvania Trail of History Guide. Stackpole: Morrisville. ISBN 0811727874
  2. ^ BirdLife International 2004. Contopus caribaeus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 25 July 2007.