If you are planning St. Lucia excursions at the rainforest, better not miss out on going St. Lucia bird watching. St. Lucia rainforest is home to numerous number of bird species that will leave you in awe. There are around 170 known bird species found nesting and flying on St. Lucia’s teeming rainforest. Some of these are only seen in the island and not in anywhere part of the world.
Among these bird species is the St. Lucia Peewee.
Scientific name: Contopus oberi
Local Names: Gobe-Mouche, or Pin Kaka
Characteristics
A peewee is generally known as Gobe-Mouche or Pin Kaka. I have dull olive broen upperparts and ruddy tan under parts. The mature Pewee can grow at about 15 cm long. Its common natural surroundings are subtropical or tropical dry backwoods, subtropical or tropical clammy woods, and subtropical or tropical soggy rainforests. Pewee is a sort of tentative fledgling kind of bird that is typically seen in openings in the rainforest where they sally for creepy crawlies. You can hear its calling sound as a climbing pree-e-e and a shrill peet-peet-peet.
Habitat
The pewee home is in a shape of a cup formed by making leaves and greenery put on a tree's limb. The female pewee produces offspring by laying two dull cream-colored eggs, vigorously spotted with brown. Its ordinary reproducing season is May and June. St Lucia Pewee is entirely endemic on the grounds that they were viewed as races of Lesser Antillean Pewee.
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