Jamaican pewee

Jamaican pewee
Contopus pallidus, Jamaica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Contopus
Species: C. pallidus
Binomial name
Contopus pallidus
(Gosse, 1847)

The Jamaican pewee (Contopus pallidus) is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family. It is endemic to Jamaica. It was formerly regarded as a subspecies of the Greater Antillean pewee (C. caribaeus).

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