Greyish Piculet vs White-wedged Piculet

Greyish Piculet

Picumnus granadensis

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The greyish piculet is 9 to 10 cm (3.5 to 3.9 in) long and weighs 12 to 13 g (0.42 to 0.46 oz). Adult males of the nominate subspecies have a black crown and nape with small yellow tips on the feathers of the front and top and white spots on the rest. Their ear coverts are chestnut brown with a few white streaks, their cheeks off-white with blackish feather tips, and the sides of their neck gray-brown with white spots or streaks. Their hindneck and upperparts are grayish brown, often with an olive tinge. Their flight feathers are dark brown with yellowish green edges. Voice: The greyish piculet "alls infrequently, a high-pitched weak trill on one pitch."

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

White-wedged Piculet

Picumnus albosquamatus

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The white-wedged piculet is 10 to 11 cm (3.9 to 4.3 in) long and weighs 9 to 11 g (0.32 to 0.39 oz). Adult males of the nominate subspecies have a black cap with wide red tips on the forehead feathers and small white spots on the rest of the cap. Their face and hindneck are mostly white with a strong brown tinge and a white stripe behind the eye. Their upperparts are warm brown to grayish brown, sometimes with faint pale tips on the feathers. Their flight feathers are dark brown with narrow buffish white edges on the secondaries and tertials. Voice: The white-wedged piculet makes a "high-pitched trill, slightly rising at first and then falling gradually in pitch 'tititititititititititi'."

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Photo: (c) Wagner Machado Carlos Lemes, some rights reserved (CC BY) · cc-by

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