Jamaican Pewee
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The Jamaican Pewee is a species of bird
in the Tyrannidae family.
It is endemic to Jamaica
. It was formerly regarded as a subspecies
of the Greater Antillean Pewee
(C. caribaeus).
Bird
Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from...
in the Tyrannidae family.
It is endemic to Jamaica
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
. It was formerly regarded as a subspecies
Subspecies
Subspecies in biological classification, is either a taxonomic rank subordinate to species, ora taxonomic unit in that rank . A subspecies cannot be recognized in isolation: a species will either be recognized as having no subspecies at all or two or more, never just one...
of the Greater Antillean Pewee
Greater Antillean Pewee
The Cuban Peewee or Crescent-eyed Pewee is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family. It is found in Cuba and the northern Bahamas. It was formerly lumped with the Hispaniolan Pewee and Jamaican Pewee The Cuban Peewee or Crescent-eyed Pewee (Contopus caribaeus) is a species of bird in the...
(C. caribaeus).