Eye-ringed Tody-Tyrant vs White-bellied Tody-Tyrant

Eye-ringed Tody-Tyrant

Hemitriccus orbitatus

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The eye-ringed tody-tyrant is 11.5 to 12 cm (4.5 to 4.7 in) long and weighs 9 to 10.5 g (0.32 to 0.37 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a dark olive crown. They have white spot above their lores and a wide white eye-ring. Their back and rump are dark olive. Their wings are olive with wide white edges on the innermost flight feathers. Their tail is dusky olive. Their throat is grayish white with olive streaks, their breast has an olive wash with darker olive streaks, and the rest of their underparts are yellow. Voice: The eye-ringed tody-tyrant's song is a "very high, slightly lowered, 'drrrih' ".

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White-bellied Tody-Tyrant

Hemitriccus griseipectus

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The white-bellied tody-tyrant is 9.5 to 11 cm (3.7 to 4.3 in) long and weighs 8 to 10 g (0.28 to 0.35 oz). The sexes and the subspecies have essentially the same plumage. Adults have an olive-green crown and nape. They have gray lores, an indistinct white eye-ring, and light gray ear coverts. Their back and rump are olive-green. Their wings are dusky with pale yellow edges on the flight feathers and pale yellow tips on the coverts; the latter show as two distinct wing bars. Their tail is olive-green. Voice: The white-bellied tody-tyrant makes a variety of tik vocalizations, sometimes singly and sometimes combined as in tu-rik or in a sequence. A description of its song is "a simple chiming pair or trio of notes, the first lower: ta-TEEK or ta-TI'PIP".

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