Omao vs Slate-colored Solitaire

Omao

Myadestes obscurus

Small50 gForest

Adult thrushes (males and females are similar in appearance) are mostly undistinguished, with a grayish-brown head transitioning to a pale gray below. The back and primaries are a dull olive brown. They also have whitish vents and undertail coverts. The juveniles are also similarly dull in coloration, but have pale whitish-buff spotting on the wing coverts.

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Slate-colored Solitaire

Myadestes unicolor

Small38 gForest

The brown-backed solitaire is 19 to 20.5 cm (7.5 to 8.1 in) long and weighs 30 to 44 g (1.1 to 1.6 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults are mostly slaty gray that is slightly lighter on their underparts than above. They have a broken white eye-ring, blacker primary coverts, black flight feathers with buff edges, and whitish gray outer tail feathers. They have a dark bill and yellowish legs and feet. Juveniles have a buffish "moustache". Their upperparts have black-edged buff spots and their underparts have whitish buff centers on the feathers that give a scaly appearance. Voice: The slate-colored solitaire's "loud, distinctive voice" is a "ringing metallic phrase, repeated regularly with little variation". It is described in much more detail as ethereal and haunting that "often starts hesitantly with a few poor notes, then breaks into varied series of clear or quavering fluty whistles, carefully delivered but of great beauty, often including or ending with loose trill, e.

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