Chestnut-crowned Antpitta vs Scaled Antpitta

Chestnut-crowned Antpitta

Grallaria ruficapilla

Medium83 gForest

Grallaria antpittas are a "wonderful group of plump and round antbirds whose feathers are often fluffed up...they have stout bills very short tails". The chestnut-crowned antpitta is 18 to 23 cm (7.1 to 9.1 in) long and weighs 70 to 98 g (2.5 to 3.5 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies G. r. ruficapilla have a rufous crown, nape, and face. Their back, rump, tail, and wings are olivaceous. Their throat, breast, and belly are white with ochraceous edges on some breast feathers and olivaceous and blackish streaks on their sides and sometimes their breast. Voice: The chestnut-crowned antpitta sings both from the ground and from low perch. Its song is "a monotonously repeated, three-note, wheee, whooo-whooo", also written as "wheee whuuu wheuu", "hee hoo-HEW", and "püe, paaw, puuee". The species' alarm call is "a one note, sharp peeyu!".

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Recorded by Nicolas Betancourt Cardona · La Calera, Cundinamarca, Colombia · CC0

Photo: Alina Martin · CC BY 4.0

Scaled Antpitta

Grallaria guatimalensis

Medium94 gForest

Grallaria antpittas are a "wonderful group of plump and round antbirds whose feathers are often fluffed up...they have stout bills very short tails". The scaled antpitta is 15 to 19 cm (5.9 to 7.5 in) long and weighs 70 to 98 g (2.5 to 3.5 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies G. g. guatimalensis have a pale olive brownish forecrown with fine black scaling and a gray crown and nape. They have whitish or buffy lores, olive brown ear coverts with thin streaks, and blue-gray skin around their eye. Voice: The song of most subspecies of scaled antpitta is "a rapid series of quavering, hollow notes lasting 2-7 seconds, slowly increasing in volume and pitch and then quickly becoming quieter at the end: cau, cau, cau-cau-caucaucaucau, cau". That of subspecies G. g.

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Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Zamora-Chinchipe: E Chito Juntas, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0

Photo: Ryan F. Mandelbaum · CC BY 4.0

Photos and recordings are credited to their authors under the licence shown. Full profiles: Chestnut-crowned Antpitta and Scaled Antpitta.