Greater Antillean Pewee

Taxobox
name = Greater Antillean Pewee


image_caption = "Contopus caribaeus caribaeus"
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Tyrannidae
genus = "Contopus"
species = "C. caribaeus"
binomial = "Contopus caribaeus"
binomial_authority = (D'Orbigny, 1839)
synonyms =

The Greater Antillean Pewee ("Contopus caribaeus") is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family. It is found in Bahamas, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and Turks and Caicos Islands. The form found in Cuba and the northern Bahamas is also known as the Crescent-eyed Pewee or (the nominate subspecies) Cuban Pewee. [Tise, Larry E. (2002). "Pennsbury Manor: Pennsylvania Trail of History Guide". Stackpole: Morrisville. ISBN 0811727874]

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, and heavily degraded former forest. [BirdLife International 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/49939/all Contopus caribaeus] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.] Downloaded on 25 July 2007.]

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