Poole, Karen E.
Contopus
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The pewees are a genus, Contopus, of small to medium-sized insect-eating birds in the Tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.
Species
KINGDOM
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyTyrannidae
Observations recorded3,012,139,120
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 155
- With media
- 13
- Family
- Tyrannidae
- Collections
- CUMV, LSUMZ
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico, Canada
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Tyrannidae
- Image
- Olive-sided Flycatcher.jpg
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- Commons category
- Contopus
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Contopus
- topic's main category
- Category:Contopus
- Commons gallery
- Contopus
- taxon range
- Brazil
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The pewees are a genus, Contopus, of small to medium-sized insect-eating birds in the Tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.
These birds are known as pewees, from the call of one of the more common members of this vocal group. They are generally charcoal-grey birds with wing bars that live in wooded areas.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Contopus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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