Northern Tropical Pewee
From southern Mexico and Trinidad to
Bolivia and Argentina...in the tyrant
flycatcher family, Tyrannidae.
Contopus bogotensis
(L 5.5" Wt 0.42 oz)
Jordanal
El Valle
12Oct2016
Pee wee pee wee is all he sing in rain, hail, sun or snow
You hear him once and the next time his voice you surely know
He has been in this Southern Land centuries before the first humans came
And pee wee pee wee is all he sang the unknown of without a name.
(Francis Duggan)
© David L.
Ross, Jr.
Macaulay
Library
Contopus in Greek means short
foot; bogotensis is after Sante
Fe de Bogota.
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