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The Hispaniolan pewee is 15 to 16 cm (5.9 to 6.3 in) long and weighs about 11.5 g (0.41 oz). The sexes have the same plumage and the two subspecies are similar to each other. Adults have a grayish olive head and back with a slightly darker crown. Their wings are dusky, sometimes with two faint wing bars. Their tail is dusky. Their throat is gray, their breast gray with an olive wash across it, and their belly and undertail coverts yellowish buff with some gray mixed in. Juveniles have pale fringes on the feathers of the crown, back, and wing coverts. Voice: The Hispaniolan pewee's dawn song is "a loud, rapid series of paired notes rising in pitch, shurr, pet-pit, pit-pit, peet-peet" and its call is "purr, pip-pip-pip-pip".
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When to see the Hispaniolan Pewee
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Where to see the Hispaniolan Pewee
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About the Hispaniolan Pewee
The Hispaniolan pewee is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is endemic to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola which is shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
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Easily confused with
Jamaican PeweeContopus pallidusThe Jamaican Pewee measures 15 cm (5.9in) from bill to tail and weighs 9–9.5g.
Tumbes PeweeContopus punensisThe tumbes pewee is 13 to 14 cm (5.1 to 5.5 in) long; three females weighed an average of 9.3 g (0.33 oz).
Ochraceous PeweeContopus ochraceusThe ochraceous pewee is 16.5 to 18 cm (6.5 to 7.1 in) long and weighs about 23 g (0.81 oz).
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