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Meanings of pewee in English
Spanish
contopus Small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America.
Usage of pewee in English
1
If Mag had the sense of a pewee, she'd told me long ago.
2
The wood pewee builds an exquisite nest, shaped and finished as if cast in a mould.
3
Of the smaller birds, the nuthatch, the wood and hermit thrush, whippoorwill, woodpeckers, wood-pewee, and others.
4
See that sombre, ashen-colored pewee on yonder branch.
5
The green-crested pewee builds its nest in many instances wholly of the blossoms of the white oak.
6
Everywhere in these solitudes I am greeted with the pensive, almost pathetic not of the wood pewee.
7
Everywhere in these solitudes I am greeted with the pensive, almost pathetic note of the wood pewee.
8
The wood pewee, the prevailing species in this locality, arrests your attention by his sweet, pathetic cry.
9
The kingbird and pewee are familiar examples.
10
It is only the oriole and the wood pewee that, as a rule, go higher than this.
11
But the wood pewee is an exception.
12
The wood pewee builds a neat, compact, socket-shaped nest of moss and lichens on a horizontal branch.
13
Hammond, olive-sided and western pewee are often seen, and at times the tall tree-tops are alive with kinglets.
14
Now and again, as they rustled some low tree, a pewee or a nuthatch would give a startled chirp.
15
This bird differs chiefly in its lighter coloring, but not in habits, from the black pewee of the Pacific slope.
16
Thus, I have seen the pewee, the cuckoo, the robin, and the wood-thrush pursuing it with angry voice and gestures.
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