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. This species has only been seen a few times in the United States, all in South Florida. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and heavily degraded former forest.

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.

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.