Buffy Tuftedcheek
Pseudocolaptes lawrencii
The buffy tuftedcheek is 20 to 21 cm (7.9 to 8.3 in) long and weighs about 35 to 50 g (1.2 to 1.8 oz). The sexes' plumages are alike but the female has a significantly longer bill than the male. The species' most distinctive feature is its namesake pale golden tawny tuft of feathers that flare on the side of the neck. Adults have a buff-whitish supercilium and blackish brown lores and ear coverts. Their crown is blackish brown with many thin buff streaks, their hindcrown similar with wider streaks, and the rest of their back rufescent-brown with a faint blackish scallop pattern. Voice: The buffy tuftedcheek sings mainly in the breeding season, a "few well-spaced staccato notes followed by a liquid gurgling trill...peek...peek...prrreeee-e-e-e". It usually sings the phrase one time but occasionally repeats it several times. It calls throughout the year, usually in the morning while foraging, a "loud, metallic, staccato peek! or spik!".
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Pacific Tuftedcheek
Pseudocolaptes johnsoni
The Pacific tuftedcheek is 20 to 21 cm (7.9 to 8.3 in) long and weighs about 58 g (2.0 oz). It is a rather large and strongly patterned ovenbird. The sexes' plumages are alike but the female has a significantly longer bill than the male. The species' most distinctive feature is its namesake pale tawny tuft of feathers that flare on the side of the neck. Adults have a buff-whitish supercilium and blackish brown lores and ear coverts. Their crown is blackish brown with many thin buff streaks, their hindcrown similar with wider streaks, and the rest of their back rufous and unstreaked. Voice: The Pacific tuftedcheek sings mainly in the breeding season, a "high-pitched trilled series of notes slowing into stuttering and ending with a characteristic high-pitched downslurred sibilant note...chi'ch't't't't'e'e'bzzzuuu". It usually sings the phrase one time but occasionally repeats it several times.
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