Bare-necked Fruitcrow vs Red-ruffed Fruitcrow

Bare-necked Fruitcrow

Gymnoderus foetidus

Medium275 gForest

The bare-necked fruitcrow is 34 to 39 cm (13 to 15 in) long; one individual weighed 220 g (7.8 oz). Both sexes have bare blue or bluish white skin on their lower face and neck; on both the skin drapes in folds though much less so on the female than male. The rest of their heads have short velvety feathers and their flanks have large patches of powder down. Adult males are otherwise mostly black except that most of their wing is silvery gray. Females are smaller than males; adults are mostly slaty gray with a faint paler scaly pattern. Voice: The bare-necked fruitcrow is described by some as silent or "apparently mute". Nevertheless, its voice has been described as a "deep bellowing oooooooo like a fog-horn". As of October 2025 xeno-canto and Cornell Lab's Macaulay Library each had a single recording.

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Photo: Sebastian Serna Muñoz · CC BY 4.0

Red-ruffed Fruitcrow

Pyroderus scutatus

Large357 gForest

It has a relatively heavy pale bluish bill, and the plumage is primarily black, but with a dull brown to bright orange-crimson patch on the throat depending on the subspecies, (thereby superficially resembling the smaller male purple-throated fruitcrow). Some subspecies have brown underparts. Males gather in loose leks where they call to attract the smaller, but otherwise similar, females.

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Photo: EstebanMH · CC BY 4.0

Photos and recordings are credited to their authors under the licence shown. Full profiles: Bare-necked Fruitcrow and Red-ruffed Fruitcrow.