Cinnamon-crested Spadebill

The cinnamon-crested spadebill is 9 to 9.5 cm (3.5 to 3.7 in) long and weighs 8.8 to 15 g (0.31 to 0.53 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a mostly dark rufous-brown head with a partially concealed orange-rufous patch on the crown, a buffish white spot above the lores, and an inconspicuous pale eye-ring. Their back, rump, and uppertail coverts are dark rufous-brown. Their wings are mostly dark rufous-brown with a dusky patch at the base of the primaries and rufescent edges on all the flight feathers. Their tail is stubby and dark rufous-brown. Voice: The subspecies of the cinnamon-crested spadebill have different vocalizations. In Venezuela the nominate gives "a sharp, nasal squik!" that rises, or a "more double-sounding squik-ik!". Those calls have also been described as a "high, sharp whit or whit-it" and "a simple, sharp, kwip, sometimes doubled to a kwi-dip or lengthened to a kwip, kwi-di-dip".