Cuban Blackbird vs Yellow-rumped Marshbird

Cuban Blackbird

Ptiloxena atroviolacea

Medium84 gForest

The Cuban blackbird is 25 to 28 cm (10 to 11 in) long and weighs 70 to 94 g (2.5 to 3.3 oz). The sexes have almost the same plumage. Adult males are entirely black with bluish and purple iridescence on their upperparts and a greenish sheen on the wings and uppertail coverts. Females are also black but have less iridescence than males. Both sexes have a dark brown iris, a black bill, and black legs and feet. Juveniles are a duller, non-glossy, brownish black. Voice: The Cuban blackbird has a "ast variety of calls; most typical is loud, repetitive tí-o, with metallic tone". This vocalization is also described as a song and written as "metallic twee-o and twee-te-to notes". Another common vocalization is " a chok, chok, chok, lee, lee, lee".

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Yellow-rumped Marshbird

Pseudoleistes guirahuro

Medium86 gUrban

Male yellow-rumped marshbirds average 25.5 cm (10 in) long. Males weigh an average of 91.2 g (3.2 oz) and females average 81.9 g (2.9 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a blackish brown head, neck, and upper breast. Their upperparts are mostly brown with a rich yellow rump. Their wings are mostly brown with rich yellow median and lesser coverts that show as an epaulet. Their tail is brown. Their lower breast and belly are rich yellow and their undertail coverts brown with thin yellow edges. Both sexes have a brown iris, a blackish bill, and blackish legs and feet. Voice: The yellow-rumped marshbird's song is "a mix of whistles, warbles, slurs and nasal buzzes" that is similar to that of the brown-and-yellow marshbird but slower and not as screechy. Its common calls are kwet-kwetéé and koink. Groups commonly vocalize together both when perched and in flight.

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