pewee

noun

pe·wee ˈpē-(ˌ)wē

: any of various small largely gray or olive-colored American flycatchers (genus Contopus)

Examples of pewee in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web 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. —

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 See More

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