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Montane Foliage-gleaner vs Ochre-breasted Foliage-gleaner

Montane Foliage-gleaner (Anabacerthia striaticollis)

Montane Foliage-gleaner

Anabacerthia striaticollis

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The montane foliage-gleaner is 16 to 17 cm (6.3 to 6.7 in) long and weighs 22 to 28 g (0.78 to 0.99 oz). It is a medium-sized furnariid with a wedge-shaped bill. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies A. s. striaticollis have a mostly dark brown face with some pale flecks and a wide pale tawny-buff eyering that extends as a streak behind the eye. Their crown, nape, and upper back are dull dark brown with a hint of buff spots. The rest of their back and rump are rich brown and their uppertail coverts are a slightly paler brown. Voice: The montane foliage-gleaner's song and calls appear to vary little across its range. One description is "an accelerating, belaboured series of staccato, high-pitched, ticking, squeaky, dry 'peck' or 'tchik' notes, roughly on same pitch, sometimes descending slightly at end, sometimes ending abruptly". Its call is "a high, squeaky, sharp 'chit' or 'tchik' ", and it also gives a "scratchy rattle".

ID text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Sonogram of the Montane Foliage-gleaner
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Morona-Santiago: w-slope Cord. de Cutucú, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0
Photo: Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0
Ochre-breasted Foliage-gleaner (Anabacerthia lichtensteini)

Ochre-breasted Foliage-gleaner

Anabacerthia lichtensteini

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The ochre-breasted foliage-gleaner is 15 to 17 cm (5.9 to 6.7 in) long and weighs 18 to 24 g (0.63 to 0.85 oz). It is a medium-sized furnariid with a wedge-shaped bill that is the shortest in its genus. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have an ochraceous eye ring and sharply defined supercilium, a dark brownish band behind the eye, dull rufous-ochre ear coverts, and pale brownish lores. Their crown is dull gray-brown with vague paler streaks, their back rufescent brown, and their rump and uppertail coverts a slightly lighter rufescent brown. Voice: The ochre-breasted foliage-gleaner's song is a "series of up to 10 estr. high, piercing 'zipzip---' notes". Its call is a "short, very high, inhaled trill".

ID text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Photo: (c) filipeprates, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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