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Greater Pewee
Contopus pertinax Cabanis & Heine, 1860
Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
Greater Pewee, Contopus pertinax, is a passerine in the Tyrannidae family that breeds from the south-western United States through Middle America to Nicaragua. It was described by Cabanis and Heine in 1860. It is a bird of pine and pine-oak forest, and also uses deciduous riparian forest in some seasons. The breeding range is split into separate parts, with river valleys and lowlands between some populations. The nominate form is the more northerly, while C. p. minor occurs farther south in Central America.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
- Breeding range
- North America, Middle America: sw USA to Nicaragua
