Puerto Rican Flycatcher vs Swainson's Flycatcher

Puerto Rican Flycatcher

Myiarchus antillarum

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The Puerto Rican flycatcher is about 16 to 18 cm (6.3 to 7.1 in) long and weighs 20.5 to 27.5 g (0.72 to 0.97 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a dark sooty brown crown that forms a crest. Their face is lighter sooty brown. Their upperparts are olive-brown. Their wings are mostly olive-brown with cinnamon-buff edges on the inner webs of the flight feathers. Their tail is mostly dusky with pale feather tips. The outer feathers have pale grayish brown outer webs and the rest between them and the innermost pair have rufous-cinnamon inner webs. Voice: The most common Puerto Rican flycatcher vocalization is a "plaintive whistle whee". It also makes a "whee-a-wit-whee".

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Swainson's Flycatcher

Myiarchus swainsoni

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Swainson's flycatcher is 19.5 to 21 cm (7.7 to 8.3 in) long and weighs about 21 to 38 g (0.74 to 1.3 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a dull olive gray-green crown and upperparts with slightly browner uppertail coverts. The crown feathers form a slight crest. Their wings are mostly brown with rufous outer edges on the primaries. The secondaries and tertials have pale whitish yellow outermost webs and the tertials dirty white to rufous innermost webs. Their greater and median wing coverts have wide fuscous gray tips. Their tail is brown. Voice: The dawn song of Swainson's flycatcher is "alternated mournful whistles, huit notes and more complex phrases". Its typical call is also a mournful whistle.

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