Since Sept. 5, the pewee, which is native to Cuba and the Bahamas, has been seen repeatedly for several days. From Wordnik.com. [marconews.com Stories] Reference
Have no idea why a starling would imitate a pewee. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Thought I heard a western wood pewee last week, but it was just a starling imitating the pewee song. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
The wood pewee, like its relative, the phoebe, feeds largely on the family of flies to which the house fly belongs. From Wordnik.com. [Bird Day; How to prepare for it] Reference
I have a feeling the pewee annoyed the film crew, who tried to get as much footage without its distracting call as they could. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference
We had a pewee along the creek behind our house for most of this past summer, and its entertaining song is highly recognizable to me now. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference
If Mag had the sense of a pewee, she'd told me long ago. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl of the Limberlost] Reference
And once I found a wood pewee in a somewhat similar mood. From Wordnik.com. [Birds in the Bush] Reference
"pewee, pewee, pe-e-er!" cried the nest owner very sadly. From Wordnik.com. [Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners] Reference
Other sweet baby-talk in the trees came from the wood-pewee. From Wordnik.com. [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference
Muscicapa virens (wood pewee), Moosehead, and I think beyond. From Wordnik.com. [The Maine Woods] Reference
First sighting of rare Cuban pewee reported in Everglades National Park. From Wordnik.com. [Naples Daily News Stories] Reference
This bird's nest, as well as his song, is unlike that of our wood-pewee. From Wordnik.com. [A Bird-Lover in the West] Reference
In his verses the catbird nests in the trumpet vine, the pewee pours forth. From Wordnik.com. [History of American Literature] Reference
The wood-pewee, in dress and manners nearly resembling his Eastern brother. From Wordnik.com. [A Bird-Lover in the West] Reference
The pewee, for all his tender and melancholy utterances, has a fiery spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference
Next to the wood-pewee, he was the most friendly of our feathered neighbors. From Wordnik.com. [A Bird-Lover in the West] Reference
It is only the oriole and the wood pewee that, as a rule, go higher than this. From Wordnik.com. [Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers] Reference
Like the call of the wood pewee, the wren's radiates coolness and shadowy quiet. From Wordnik.com. [Edge of the Jungle] Reference
A rare sighting of a bird called a Cuban pewee has visitors flocking to Florida. From Wordnik.com. [marconews.com Stories] Reference
The wood pewee builds an exquisite nest, shaped and finished as if cast in a mould. From Wordnik.com. [Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers] Reference
He pitched for Brantford as a 13-year-old at the 1973 CNE pewee baseball tournament. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
One thing must be said, however, in defence of the western wood-pewee -- he means well. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of the Rockies] Reference
From pewee football with LeBron to being a tiny fullback, Carolina's Tyrell Sutton excels. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Now and again, as they rustled some low tree, a pewee or a nuthatch would give a startled chirp. From Wordnik.com. [Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories] Reference
I noted but one nest of the wood pewee, and that, too, like so many other nests, failed of issue. From Wordnik.com. [Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers] Reference
The next arrival was a pewee, whose own nest was nearly built, in a wild-cherry tree not far off. From Wordnik.com. [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference
The green-crested pewee builds its nest in many instances wholly of the blossoms of the white oak. From Wordnik.com. [In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs] Reference
The green-crested pewee builds its nest in many instances wholly of the blossoms of the white-oak. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.] Reference
The wood-pewee was unheard, and even the vireo seemed to have finished his endless song and gone his way. From Wordnik.com. [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference
While their charge lingered so near me, I was treated to another sensation by one of the pair, -- a pewee song. From Wordnik.com. [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference
Thus, I have seen the pewee, the cuckoo, the robin, and the wood-thrush pursuing it with angry voice and gestures. From Wordnik.com. [Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers] Reference
The pewee I had noted from the building of her beautiful lichen-covered cradle in the crotch of a wild-cherry tree. From Wordnik.com. [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference
There may have been more, although I saw but one and heard but one baby cry, a prolonged but very low sound of pewee quality. From Wordnik.com. [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference
A multitude of gnats circling about in the air, seemed to be precisely to the taste of the pewee parents and their hungry bairns. From Wordnik.com. [Our Bird Comrades] Reference
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