Cinnamon-bellied Ground Tyrant vs Ochre-naped Ground Tyrant

Cinnamon-bellied Ground Tyrant

Muscisaxicola capistratus

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The cinnamon-bellied ground tyrant is 16.5 to 18 cm (6.5 to 7.1 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a black forecrown and a bright rufous-chestnut mid- and hindcrown. Their face, nape, and upperparts are dusky gray or brownish gray. Their wings are dusky with pale white edges on the flight feathers. Their tail is black with whitish edges on the outer webs of the outermost feathers. Their throat is whitish, their breast grayish buff, and their belly cinnamon-rufous or rufous-buff that is darker on the flanks and vent area. Voice: As of April 2025 xeno-canto had seven recordings of cinnamon-bellied ground tyrant vocalizations, all by a single recordist in Argentina on January 20, 2002. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library had five including one of the xeno-canto recordings. The species' vocalizations include a "high-pitched wee tee, wee tee tee and wee tee tee tee longer weetee weetee weeteewee wee wee".

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Ochre-naped Ground Tyrant

Muscisaxicola flavinucha

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The ochre-naped ground tyrant is 18.5 to 20 cm (7.3 to 7.9 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a white forehead and supercilium and a pale ochre patch on the rear crown on an otherwise pale brownish gray face. Their nape and back are pale brownish gray. Their wings are a duskier brownish gray with thin white edges on the flight feathers. Their tail is black with white edges on the outer feathers. Their throat, breast, and upper belly are grayish white that becomes white on the lower belly and vent area. Voice: As of April 2025 xeno-canto had only four recordings of ochre-naped ground tyrant vocalizations. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library had 11, one of which is also on xeno-canto. The species' voice is described as "short high-pitched bursts, tsee tee tsee tseet".

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Photo: Hugo Hulsberg · CC0

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