General

Cuban Pewee: Small flycatcher with gray upperparts, dark gray head with bushy crest and white crescent behind eye, and pale yellow underparts. Wings are dark with two faint bars. Upper mandible is black while lower mandible is yellow. Sexes are similar.

Range and Habitat

Cuban Pewee: Resident of northern Bahamas and Cuba; inhabits pine forests, woods, forest edges, tree plantations, brushy scrub, swamp edges, and mangroves.

Breeding and Nesting

Cuban Pewee: Two to four white eggs with dark brown or black spots are laid in a small, finely made cup of roots, hair, dried grass, lichens, and other soft materials, and lined with small feathers and plant materials.

Foraging and Feeding

Cuban Pewee: Feeds mostly on small insects, but also eats fruits.

Readily Eats

Meal Worms

Vocalization

Cuban Pewee: Makes a long, thin whistle. In Cuba, the song is a high-pitched, weak, squeaky whistle consisting of two phrases, usually given sequentially, "eeah, oweeeah." In the Bahamas, the song is similar, but has a third "dee-dee" phrase.

Similar Species

Cuban Pewee: La Sagra's Flycatcher is larger, lacks white eye crescent, and has red-brown edged tail feathers.