Moss-backed Sparrow vs Sooty-faced Finch

Moss-backed Sparrow

Arremon dorbignii

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The adult male moss-backed sparrow's head is mostly black, with a white supercilium from the lores to the back of the head and a narrow gray streak on the crown. The neck is gray and the back, wings, and tail are dull olive green. Its underside is white with grayish edges and a narrow black band across the upper chest. The adult female is similar but duller overall. The crown strip is olive and the underparts are buffy with brown flanks. Juveniles are similar to the adults but duller. The moss-backed sparrow shares the "striking orange bill" of its former "parent" saffron-billed sparrow.

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Sooty-faced Finch

Arremon crassirostris

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The sooty-faced finch is 15 to 17 cm (5.9 to 6.7 in) long and weighs 37 to 40.5 g (1.3 to 1.4 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a rusty crown and a white down-sweeping "moustache" on an otherwise blackish gray head and nape. Their upperparts are dark olive-green and their wings and tail a slightly browner olive-green. Their upper breast, sides, and flanks are dark olive-green and their lower breast and belly yellow. They have a dark brown or chocolate-brown iris, a dark gray maxilla, a pale yellow or whitish mandible, and dark legs and feet. Voice: One sooty-faced finch song is a "high-pitched, thin, emphatic pseee-psééét". Another is a "high-pitched, thin whistled see see seeya sue sue sisi see". Its call is a "sharp, thin, whistled pu-pee".

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Photo: Daniel Ghyselinck · CC BY 4.0

Photos and recordings are credited to their authors under the licence shown. Full profiles: Moss-backed Sparrow and Sooty-faced Finch.