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{{Short description|Genus of birds}}{{Distinguish|text=[[magpie larks]], often called peewees}}{{Automatic Taxobox
| name = Pewees
| image = Contopus sordidulus 1.jpg
| image_caption = [[Western wood pewee]] (''Contopus sordidulus'')
| taxon = Contopus
| authority = [[Jean Cabanis|Cabanis]], 1855
| type_species = ''Muscicapa virens''
| type_species_authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1766
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 
See text.
}}

The '''pewees''' are a [[genus]], '''''Contopus''''', of small to medium-sized [[insect]]-eating [[bird]]s in the [[Tyrant flycatcher]] family [[Tyrannidae]].

These birds are known as pewees, from the call of one of the more common members of this vocal group. They are generally charcoal-grey birds with wing bars that live in wooded areas.

The genus ''Contopus'' was introduced by the German ornithologist [[Jean Cabanis]] in 1855 with the [[eastern wood pewee]] as the [[type species]].<ref>{{ cite journal | last=Cabanis | first=Jean | author-link=Jean Cabanis | year=1855 | title=''Contopus virens'' Cab. | journal=Journal für Ornithologie | language=German | volume=3 | issue=18 | page=479 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13947637 }}</ref> The name of the genus combines the [[Ancient Greek]] words ''kontos''  "pole" or "shaft" and ''pous'' "foot".<ref name=hbwkey>{{cite web | last=Jobling | first=J.A. | year=2018 | title= Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology | editor1-last=del Hoyo | editor1-first=J. | editor2-last=Elliott | editor2-first=A. | editor3-last=Sargatal | editor3-first=J. | editor4-last=Christie | editor4-first=D.A. | editor5-last=de Juana | editor5-first=E. | work=Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive | publisher=Lynx Edicions | url=https://www.hbw.com/dictionary/definition/contopus | accessdate=1 July 2018 }}</ref>

The genus contains 16 species:<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2018 | title=Tyrant flycatchers | work=World Bird List Version 8.2 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/flycatchers/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=1 July 2018 }}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Image !! Scientific name !! Common Name !! Distribution
|-
|[[File:Olive-sided Flycatcher.jpg|120px]]|| ''Contopus cooperi'' || [[Olive-sided flycatcher]] ||Canada, Alaska and the northeastern and western United States
|-
|[[File:Greater Pewee Reef Townsite CG Carr Canyon Sierra Vista AZ 2017-04-30 10-43-45 (33581995433).jpg|120px]]|| ''Contopus pertinax'' || [[Greater pewee]] || central and southern Mexico south through Costa Rica and Nicaragua
|-
|[[File:Contopus lugubris.jpg|120px]]|| ''Contopus lugubris'' || [[Dark pewee]] || Talamancan montane forests of Costa Rica and western Panama. 
|-
|[[File:Contopus fumigatus (Atrapamoscas ahumado) (14175076217).jpg|120px]]|| ''Contopus fumigatus'' || [[Smoke-colored pewee]] || Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela
|-
|[[File:Contopus ochraceus 1902.jpg|120px]]|| ''Contopus ochraceus'' || [[Ochraceous pewee]] || Costa Rica and western Panama
|-
|[[File:Contopus sordidulus 1.jpg|120px]]|| ''Contopus sordidulus'' || [[Western wood pewee]] ||western North America
|-
|[[File:Eastern Wood-Pewee (8463727496).jpg|120px]]|| ''Contopus virens'' || [[Eastern wood pewee]] ||Central America and in the Andes region of northern South America.
|-
|[[File:Contopus cinereus cinereus - Tropical Pewee; Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil.jpg|120px]]|| ''Contopus cinereus'' || [[Southern tropical pewee]] ||southern [[Brazil]] and [[Paraguay]] south to  [[Argentina]].
|-
|[[File:Tropical Pewee - Rio Tigre - Costa Rica.jpg|120px]]|| ''Contopus bogotensis'' || [[Northern tropical pewee]] ||southeastern [[Mexico]] to northern [[South America]] from northern [[Colombia]] to northeastern [[Brazil]].
|-
|[[File:Tumbes Pewee - South Ecuador S4E9467 (16250963334).jpg|120px]]|| ''Contopus punensis'' || [[Tumbes pewee]] ||western Ecuador and western Peru. 
|-
|[[File:White-throated Pewee (Contopus albogularis) (cropped).jpg|120px]]|| ''Contopus albogularis'' || [[White-throated pewee]] || Brazil, French Guiana, and Suriname.
|-
|[[File:Contopus nigrescens - Blackish pewee.JPG|120px]]|| ''Contopus nigrescens'' || [[Blackish pewee]] || Brazil, Ecuador, Guyana, and Peru. 
|-
|[[File:Cuban pewee (Contopus caribaeus caribaeus).JPG|120px]]|| ''Contopus caribaeus'' || [[Cuban pewee]] || Cuba and the northern Bahamas. 
|-
|[[File:Hispaniolan Pewee (Contopus hispaniolensis) (8082782665).jpg|120px]]|| ''Contopus hispaniolensis'' || [[Hispaniolan pewee]] ||island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean. 
|-
|[[File:Jamaican Pewee (Contopus pallidus) (8082126311).jpg|120px]]|| ''Contopus pallidus'' || [[Jamaican pewee]] || Jamaica
|-
|[[File:Moucherolle gobemouche.jpg|120px]]|| ''Contopus latirostris'' || [[Lesser Antillean pewee]] || Dominica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Puerto Rico, and Saint Lucia 
|-
|}




==References==
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==External links==
*{{Commonscat-inline|Contopus|''Contopus''}}
*{{Wikispecies-inline|Contopus|''Contopus''}}

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