Ruddy Woodcreeper vs Tyrannine Woodcreeper

Ruddy Woodcreeper

Dendrocincla homochroa

Small39 gForest

The ruddy woodcreeper is 17.5 to 20.5 cm (6.9 to 8.1 in) long. Males weigh 34 to 45 g (1.2 to 1.6 oz) and females 27 to 39 g (0.95 to 1.4 oz). The species is a medium-sized member of its genus, with a straight bill, a short tail, and a large head with a ruffled nape. The sexes have the same plumage. The nominate subspecies has dark rufous to chestnut-brown upperparts with a brighter reddish crown. Its wings, uppertail coverts, and tail are rufous chestnut. The tips of its primaries are dusky. It has grayish lores and eyering and a cinnamon-buff to tawny-ochraceous throat. Voice: The ruddy woodcreeper seldom vocalizes. It does make a "rattle, churring or slightly slurred" song and a variety of calls including "churring, a squeaky 'quink' or 'peach', and a nasal, descending 'deeeeah' or 'tee tee eu' ".

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Recorded by Andrea Martinez · Uncertain · Chuluc, Chemax Municipality, Yucatán, Mexico · CC BY 4.0

Photo: Juan Rodolfo Lillo Lobos · CC BY 4.0

Tyrannine Woodcreeper

Dendrocincla tyrannina

Small55 gForest

The tyrannine woodcreeper is rather larger and heavier than most others of its genus. It is 23 to 26.5 cm (9.1 to 10 in) long and weighs 40 to 64 g (1.4 to 2.3 oz). The sexes have the same plumage, though males average heavier than females. The nominate subspecies mostly warm brown, with a paler throat, faint buff streaks on its forecrown and behind the eye, and a rufescent cast to the wings and tail. Subspecies D. t. hellmayri is a more olive-brown than the nominate, and has less rufescent wings and tail. Both subspecies have a brown to bluish gray iris and gray to blackish legs and feet. Voice: The tyrannine woodcreeper typically sings from the subcanopy of a ridgetop tree. Its song is "a long stuttered rattle that gradually increases in pitch and volume before trailing off and slowing toward end". Its call is "a fast phrase of 3-6 sharp abrupt notes, e.g., 'di-di-di-di-dik!' ". It also makes "a hollow, whistled 'que-up'."

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Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Zamora-Chinchipe: near Panguri, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0

Photo: Florencia Grattarola · CC BY 4.0

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