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Wood pewee

noun
1.
Small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America.  Synonyms: Contopus virens, peewee, peewit, pewee, pewit.



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"Wood pewee" Quotes from Famous Books



... The wood pewee, like its relative, the phoebe, feeds largely on the family of flies to which the ...
— Bird Day; How to prepare for it • Charles Almanzo Babcock
... color—a shade deeper than is ever seen at the North, I think—of the male's blue coat. In a small thicket in the hollow beside the road were noisy white-eyed vireos, a ruby-crowned kinglet,—a tiny thing that within a month would be singing in Canada, or beyond,—an unseen wood pewee, and (also unseen) a hermit thrush, one of perhaps twenty solitary individuals that I found scattered about the woods in the course of my journeyings. Not one of them sang a note. Probably they did not know that there was a Yankee ...
— A Florida Sketch-Book • Bradford Torrey


Words linked to "Wood pewee" :   tyrant flycatcher, Contopus sordidulus, New World flycatcher, flycatcher, tyrant bird, genus Contopus, Contopus


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