Ochre-collared Piculet vs Scaled Piculet

Ochre-collared Piculet

Picumnus temminckii

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The ochre-collared piculet is 9 to 10 cm (3.5 to 3.9 in) long and weighs 10 to 12.5 g (0.35 to 0.44 oz). Adult males have a black cap with red tips on the forehead feathers and small white spots on the rest of the cap. Their face is mostly rich buff-brown with a white stripe behind the eye. Their hindneck has the cinnamon-buff collar that provides its English name. Their upperparts are brown, sometimes with very faint paler bars. Their flight feathers are dark brown with narrow buff edges. Voice: One ochre-collared piculet vocalization is a "igh-pitched whistle, 'tsirrrr, si-si-si...'." Another is "a dry, toneless trill 'trrrrrruh'."

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Scaled Piculet

Picumnus squamulatus

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The scaled piculet is 8 to 9.2 cm (3.1 to 3.6 in) long and weighs 7 to 12 g (0.25 to 0.42 oz). Adult males of the nominate subspecies P. s. squamulatus have a black cap with red feather tips on the forehead and white ones on the rest of it. Their face is mostly brown with black tips on some feathers and a whitish line behind the eye. Their upperparts are olive brown with a scaly appearance due to narrow black borders on the feathers. Their flight feathers are brown with yellowish edges on the secondaries and tertials.

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