Definitionn. small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America
Last update: June 20, 2015
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The more characteristic and useful birds include many species of the sparrow, such as the song, swamp, Lincoln's chipping and field sparrow; the bank, barn, cliff, white-bellied and rough-winged swallow, as well as the purple martin and the chimney swift; ten or more species of fly-catchers, including the least, arcadian, phoebe, wood pewee, olive-sided and king bird; about ten species of woodpeckers, of which the more common are the downy, hairy, yellowbellied and golden-winged (flicker); about thirty species of warblers, including the parula, cerulean, Blackburnian, prothonotary, yellow Nashville, red-start, worm-eating and chestnut-sided; and four or five species of vireos. [Please select]
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Only the pewee and the red-eyed vireo, whom neither midday nor midsummer heat can silence, share the stage with him then. [Please select]
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While not so ready to be neighbourly as the phoebe, the pewee condescends to visit our orchards and shade trees. [Please select]
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Their three or four eggs cannot be distinguished from those of the eastern Wood Pewee. [Please select]
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The next arrival was a pewee, whose own nest was nearly built, in a wild-cherry tree not far off. [Please select]
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The pewee I had noted from the building of her beautiful lichen-covered cradle in the crotch of a wild-cherry tree. [Please select]
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The pewee, for all his tender and melancholy utterances, has a fiery spirit. [Please select]
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While their charge lingered so near me, I was treated to another sensation by one of the pair,--a pewee song. [Please select]
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The young thrasher and the robin chirped in the grove; sweet bluebird and pewee baby cries came from the shrubbery; the golden-wing leaned far out of his oaken walls, and called from morning to night. [Please select]
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