Contopus punensis
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In 3 days ~60% in a week ~90%
The Tumbes pewee or western tropical pewee (Contopus punensis) is a passerine bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Ecuador and Peru. The tumbes pewee's taxonomy is unsettled. The International Ornithological Committee (IOC), the Clements taxonomy, and BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) treat it as a full species, though HBW calls it the "western tropical pewee". The North and South American Classification Committees of the American Ornithological Society treat it and seven other taxa as subspecies of the tropical pewee with the binomial Contopus cinereus. In 2016 HBW separated three of them as the monotypic "western tropical pewee" and the two-subspecies southern tropical pewee (C. cinereus). In 2018 the IOC recognized C. punensis as the tumbes pewee and Clements followed suit in 2022.
The 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). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a dark olive-gray crown with a slight crest, white to grayish white lores, and a thin white eye-ring on an otherwise pale grayish olive face... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Machalilla National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Tumbes Pewee sighting in Machalilla National Park on a given day, based on 192 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 36th most-seen of the 248 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 60%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May and December
In those months about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Tumbes Pewee in Machalilla National Park on a given day, against about 10% in June and August, the lowest months.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Tumbes Pewee sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Machalilla National Park, in our data
Machalilla National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Tumbes 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 Tumbes Pewee is recorded against all the birds logged in Machalilla National Park (192 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), 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.
