Pewees’ Playhouse
<p>The pewees of North America might sport gray and white suits similar to the similar-sounding television character with the extra E in his name, but they all lack a signature red bowtie. What they do have, though, are flattened bills with bristly bases and a tendency to sit quietly on exposed branches or powerlines while they wait to snap up insects.</p>
<p>Pewees are flycatchers belonging to the Tyrannidae family, which has the distinction of being the world’s largest bird family. Approximately <a href="https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/tyrann2/cur/introduction" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">425 known species</a> inhabit North and South America, with most species found exclusively in the Neotropics. While some southern specialties in the United States, like the vermilion flycatcher and great kiskadee, have distinctive features, many of our local tyrant flycatchers need close scrutiny to make the correct identification call. Happily, with our three pewees, region, size, and wingbars make differentiation easy.</p>
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