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Lesser Antillean pewee

species of bird

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionOct 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ1262451 ↗
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The Lesser Antillean pewee (Contopus latirostris) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Dominica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Puerto Rico, and Saint Lucia. There are also scattered records on Saint Kitts.

Taxonomy and systematics

Worldwide and regional taxonomic systems assign the Lesser Antillean pewee three subspecies, the nominate C. l. latirostris (Verreaux, 1866), C. l. blancoi (Cabanis, 1875), and C. l. brunneicapillus (Lawrence, 1878). However, some authors have treated each as a separate species. Some of them call C. l. latirostris the Saint Lucia pewee (C. oberi) and C. l.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lesser Antillean pewee” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.