Grey-capped Tyrannulet vs Sclater's Tyrannulet

Grey-capped Tyrannulet

Phyllomyias griseocapilla

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The grey-capped tyrannulet is about 11 cm (4.3 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a slate-gray crown and nape and bright olive-green back and rump. Their lores and eye area are white with a faint dusky stripe through their eye. Their lower face is pale gray. Their wings are dusky with bright yellow edges on the flight feathers and the ends of the coverts; the latter show as two wing bars. Their tail is dusky olive. Their throat is grayish white, their breast pale gray, their flanks bright yellow-green, and their belly whitish. Voice: The grey-capped tyrannulet's song is a "short series of 1-4 high, clear, whistled 'weew--' notes". Its call is a "high, clear, drawn-out, rising 'weeeew' ".

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Photo: John Jennens · Public domain

Sclater's Tyrannulet

Phyllomyias sclateri

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Sclater's tyrannulet is 11.5 to 12.5 cm (4.5 to 4.9 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a dull olive-green crown, nape, back, and rump with a grayish tinge on the crown. They have whitish lores and narrow supercilium. Their wings are dusky with pale yellow to whitish edges on the flight feathers and the ends of the coverts; the last show as two bars on the closed wing. Their tail is dusky olive. Their throat is grayish white and their lower face grizzled whitish. Their breast is pale gray that becomes pale yellowish on their flanks and belly. Voice: What is thought to be the song of Sclater's tyrannulet is "a deep, gruff chanting: djeer djeer djeer djeer interspersed with sharper tchik tchik thcik notes".

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Photo: Ron Knight from Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0

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