Chilean Seaside Cinclodes
Cinclodes nigrofumosus
The Chilean seaside cinclodes is 21 to 27 cm (8.3 to 11 in) long and weighs 63 to 67 g (2.2 to 2.4 oz). It is a large cinclodes with a straight bill. The sexes have the same plumages. Adults have narrow pale buff or whitish supercilium on an otherwise blackish brown face. Their crown and upperparts are smoky black or blackish brown. Their wings are blackish with a pale rufous band at the base of the flight feathers. Their tail is black; the outer three pairs of feathers have pale rufous or ashy-brown tips. Voice: The song of the Chilean seaside cinclodes is a "bright trilled series of piping whistles" that pairs sometimes sing in duet. Its calls include a "short, sharp, slightly metallic chik" that may be uttered in a series and a "repeated more subdued drier chuk" made by an adult feeding young.
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Stout-billed Cinclodes
Cinclodes excelsior
The stout-billed cinclodes is 20 to 21 cm (7.9 to 8.3 in) long and weighs 62 to 66 g (2.2 to 2.3 oz). It is a large cinclodes with a decurved, thick-based, bill. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a long white supercilium that extends to the hindneck, a whitish malar area with dark scallops, and an otherwise dark brown face with some narrow pale streaks. Their crown is very dark brown and their upperparts dark brown. Their wings are also dark brown, with blackish brown primary coverts and some rufous across the base of the flight feathers. Voice: The stout-billed cinclodes' song is "a rising and swelling trill, 'tr-r-r-r-r-r-r-reet' ". Its calls include "a nasal 'kiu' or 'druut' or 'ken-eek' low twittering notes in flight".
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