Order: Passeriformes | Family: Tyrannidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Orellana, Ecuador
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Napo, Ecuador
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Orellana, Ecuador
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Escalera, San Martin
Identification & Behavior: ~13 cm (5.1 in). The Blackish Pewee is uniformly dusky gray. It shows a bushy crest. The bill is bicolored with most of the mandible orange-yellow. It forages for insects from exposed branches and snags near the canopy of forest edges and also from lower perches. It is much smaller than the otherwise similar Smoke-colored Pewee.
Status: The Blackish Pewee is rare and local in montane forests of northeast slope of the Andes at elevations ranging between 600-1500 m. It also occurs in Ec and Br.
Name in Spanish: Pibí Negruzco.
Sub-species: Blackish Pewee (Contopus nigrescens canescens), (Chapman), 1926.
Meaning of Name: Contopus: Gr. kontos= pole, shaft and pous, podos= foot. nigrescens: L. nigrescens, nigrescentis = blackish.
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- Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum. http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 03/01/2017.