Contopus caribaeus
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In 3 days ~70% in a week ~90%
The Cuban pewee or crescent-eyed pewee (Contopus caribaeus) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Cuba and the Bahamas. The Cuban pewee and what are now the Hispaniolan pewee (C. hispaniolensis) and Jamaican pewee (C. pallidus) were formerly treated as one species, the Greater Antillean pewee. They were separated following a study published in 1993 that detailed differences in their vocalizations, plumage, and measurements.
The Cuban pewee has these four subspecies: The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies C. c. caribaeus have a dark olive-gray crown with a slight crest, slightly paler olive-gray lores, and a whitish crescent around the back of the eye on an otherwise olive-brown face. Their back is also olive-brown. Their wings are dusky brown with pale tips on the coverts that show as two faint wing bars. The wing's outer secondaries... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ciénaga de Zapata | 🇨🇺 Cuba |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Havana | 🇨🇺 Cuba |
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Cuban Pewee sighting in Havana on a given day, based on 596 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 18th most-seen of the 183 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 70%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
September and October
In those months about 60% of wildlife watchers report a Cuban Pewee in Havana on a given day, against about 20% in February–March and November–December, the lowest months. Those are among Havana's wettest months, with about 95 mm of rain a month against 25 mm in March.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Cuban Pewee sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Havana, in our data
Havana is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Cuban Pewee sightings: about 30% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Cuban Pewee is recorded against all the birds logged in Havana (596 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
