Bronze-green Euphonia vs West Mexican Euphonia

Bronze-green Euphonia

Euphonia mesochrysa

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The bronze-green euphonia is 9 to 10 cm (3.5 to 3.9 in) long and weighs 12 to 15 g (0.42 to 0.53 oz). It is a rather drab euphonia with a thick stubby bill. The species is sexually dimorphic. Adult males of the nominate subspecies have a bright yellow forehead with a thin dark olive band below it. Their mid-crown is olive, their rear crown grayish, and their nape and the rest of their face olive. Their upperparts are olive with a strong gray-blue gloss. Their upperwing coverts are olive-green and their primary coverts blackish. Voice: One description of the bronze-green euphonia's song is "2 clear notes followed by a musical trill, tee-teeu-trrrrrt". Another is "usually a whistled note followed by one or more ringing rattles, for example peew brrrrrrr brr brr". Its call is "a distinctive, gravelly treeuh, treeuh".

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Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Zamora-Chinchipe: Chinapinza at 1700 m, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0

Photo: Ruth Gutiérrez Oliveros · CC0

West Mexican Euphonia

Euphonia godmani

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The West Mexican euphonia is about 10 cm (3.9 in) long. The species is sexually dimorphic. Adult males have a small yellow forecrown; the color extends just to the eye. The rest of their head and nape are glossy blue-black with a purplish sheen. Their upperparts are glossy blue-black. Their tail is mostly blackish with white inner webs on the outer two pairs of feathers. Their upperwing coverts and flight feathers are blackish with some dark blue gloss. Their chin and throat are glossy blue-black with a purplish sheen, their breast and belly bright yellow, and their undertail coverts white. Voice: The West Mexican euphonia's calls include "1–3 pure thin whistles, dee-dee-dee, sometimes followed by 2 or 3 more on same or slightly lower pitch", a "shorter whit-it-it-it", and a "longer wheeee". It sings less than it calls, with "a weak twittering and chirping medley, e.g. wheetidy-titity-witity-titity".

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Photo: Nomdeploom · CC0

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