Smoke-colored Pewee Contopus fumigatus

Smoke-colored Pewee, Amagusa Reserve, Pichincha, Ecuador, November 2019 - click for larger image Amagusa Reserve, Pichincha, Ecuador
November 2019

The Smoke-colored Pewee is distributed in the Andes from Venezuela to northern Argentina with a disjunct population in the Tepuis of Venezuela. See the distribution map at Birdlife International. They are found in montane forest and forest edges mainly between 1,000 and 2,500 metres.

Smoke-colored Pewee, Amagusa Reserve, Pichincha, Ecuador, November 2019 - click for larger image It is a fairly large and uniformly dark grey pewee with a bushy crest and orange-yellow lower mandible. They are usually seen perched in the open from where they sally to catch insects and then return to the same perch.

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