Cryptic Becard
Pachyramphus salvini
The cryptic becard is about 14 cm (5.5 in) long and weighs an average of about 17 g (0.60 oz). Adult males have a glossy bluish black crown. They have blackish lores, a wide white stripe from above the lores to above the eye, and a thin partial white eye-ring on an otherwise grayish face. Their nape and upperparts through their uppertail coverts are gray. Their wings are mostly black with wide white edges on the secondaries, tertials, and median and greater coverts; the last two show as wing bars. Their tail is has a black upper surface and a white-tipped pale gray lower surface. Voice: The cryptic becard's song is a "short stereotypic phrase of typically three notes tu-tu-dwit?" and it also makes a "rapid stuttered trill tjududududuwit" that might be a variation of the song. Males sing mostly at dawn and in the early morning.
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Pink-throated Becard
Pachyramphus minor
The pink-throated becard is 16.5 to 17.5 cm (6.5 to 6.9 in) long and weighs 31 to 44 g (1.1 to 1.6 oz). The species is sexually dimorphic. Adult males are mostly black to dark sooty gray. Their face and underparts are slightly paler than their back. They have the eponymous pink patch on the lower throat and upper breast, though sometimes it is indistinct. They have some white at the bend of the wing that is usually visible only in flight. Adult females have somewhat individually variable plumage. In general they have a grayish brown crown and nape. Voice: The pink-throated becard is generally quiet. Its song is described as "a clear, melodic teeuuuweeet often followed by twittering notes", "a thin, wiry, high, rising-falling, whiny tewwweeewww or a rising tueeeet?", and " a clear, rising whistle, tuuueeeE". Its calls include "a rapid chatter of squeaky whistles and whines and a sharp ik".
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