: any of various small largely gray or olive-colored American flycatchers (genus Contopus)
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Unusual species included a brown pelican, a Mississippi kite, a banded western wood-pewee, a black-throated gray warbler, a prothonotary warbler, and a summer tanager.
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Maria Elena Little Endara, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2022
Cape Cod: a brown pelican on the Pamet jetty in Truro, a western wood-pewee banded at South Monomoy, a black-throated gray warbler at Sandy Neck in Barnstable, and a summer tanager at Fort Hill in Eastham.
—Maria Elena Little Endara, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2022
Dead migratory birds -- which include species such as warblers, bluebirds, sparrows, blackbirds, the western wood pewee and flycatchers -- are also being found in Colorado, Texas and Mexico.
—Alaa Elassar, CNN, 14 Sep. 2020
There were also 22 double-crested cormorants, two bald eagles, two American kestrels, 11 Eastern wood-pewees, and 23 red-eyed vireos.
—BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2019
The wooded areas hold Eastern wood-pewees, summer tanagers and red-eyed vireos.
—Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 4 May 2018
The migrant wildlife is gone, the pewees, vireos and wood thrushes all far to the south by now.
—Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2017
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Maria Elena Little Endara, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2022
Cape Cod: a brown pelican on the Pamet jetty in Truro, a western wood-pewee banded at South Monomoy, a black-throated gray warbler at Sandy Neck in Barnstable, and a summer tanager at Fort Hill in Eastham.
—Maria Elena Little Endara, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2022
Dead migratory birds -- which include species such as warblers, bluebirds, sparrows, blackbirds, the western wood pewee and flycatchers -- are also being found in Colorado, Texas and Mexico.
—Alaa Elassar, CNN, 14 Sep. 2020
There were also 22 double-crested cormorants, two bald eagles, two American kestrels, 11 Eastern wood-pewees, and 23 red-eyed vireos.
—BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2019
The wooded areas hold Eastern wood-pewees, summer tanagers and red-eyed vireos.
—Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 4 May 2018
The migrant wildlife is gone, the pewees, vireos and wood thrushes all far to the south by now.
—Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2017
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pewee
noun
pe·wee
ˈpē-wē 
: any of various small grayish or greenish brown birds that eat flying insects
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