Chestnut-crowned Antpitta vs Tawny 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

Tawny Antpitta

Grallaria quitensis

Medium66 gShrubland

The tawny antpitta is 16 to 18 cm (6.3 to 7.1 in) long and weighs between 58 and 81 g (2.0 and 2.9 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have pale buff lores and are whitish around the eye on an otherwise olive brown to rufous olive face. They have mostly pale brown to olive brown crown, nape, back, wings, and tail. Their crown and back have a slight gray wash and their rump is browner, almost clay-colored. Their primaries have pale buff leading edges and blackish to blackish olive trailing vanes. Their chin and throat are whitish. Voice: Despite its generally open habitat, the tawny antpitta is more often heard than seen. Its basic song is "a simple, three-note vocalization that starts with a short, even, overslurred note followed by a pause, and then two slightly longer overslurred notes at a slightly lower pitch in quick succession" that lasts about 1.1 to 1.3 seconds.

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Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Cotopaxi: Laguna de Limpiopungo, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0

Photo: Michael Woodruff from Spokane, Washington, USA · CC BY 2.0

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