Ochre-naped Ground Tyrant vs Puna Ground Tyrant

Ochre-naped Ground Tyrant

Muscisaxicola flavinucha

Small36 gGrassland

The ochre-naped ground tyrant is 18.5 to 20 cm (7.3 to 7.9 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a white forehead and supercilium and a pale ochre patch on the rear crown on an otherwise pale brownish gray face. Their nape and back are pale brownish gray. Their wings are a duskier brownish gray with thin white edges on the flight feathers. Their tail is black with white edges on the outer feathers. Their throat, breast, and upper belly are grayish white that becomes white on the lower belly and vent area. Voice: As of April 2025 xeno-canto had only four recordings of ochre-naped ground tyrant vocalizations. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library had 11, one of which is also on xeno-canto. The species' voice is described as "short high-pitched bursts, tsee tee tsee tseet".

ID text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Photo: Hugo Hulsberg · CC0

Puna Ground Tyrant

Muscisaxicola juninensis

Small22 gGrassland

The puna ground tyrant is 16 to 16.5 cm (6.3 to 6.5 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a dull cinnamon crown, a white spot above their lores, a faint pale supercilium, and a pale broken eye-ring on an otherwise pale brownish gray face. Their upperparts are mostly pale brownish gray with a black lower rump. Their wings are dusky gray. Their tail is black with white edges on the outer webs of the outermost feathers. Their throat and belly are whitish and their breast pale gray. They have a dark iris, a black bill, and black legs and feet. Voice: As of April 2025 xeno-canto had a single recording of a puna ground tyrant vocalization and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library had five others. The species' song is not known. Its call is "a soft high-pitched peep repeated at intervals".

ID text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Photo: Opisska · CC0

Photos and recordings are credited to their authors under the licence shown. Full profiles: Ochre-naped Ground Tyrant and Puna Ground Tyrant.