Rufous Sabrewing
Pampa rufa
The rufous sabrewing is 12.1 to 14 cm (4.8 to 5.5 in) long and weighs an average of 7.5 g (0.26 oz). Its black bill is straight, stout, and broad. The sexes have essentially the same plumage. Their upperparts are bright metallic bronze green to greenish bronze; the crown is slightly darker and duller and the uppertail coverts are more bronzy. Their face is cinnamon with a white spot behind the eye and their underparts are cinnamon that is slightly paler down the center. Their central pair of tail feathers is metallic bronze to greenish bronze. Voice: The rufous sabrewing's song is "varied, strong, squeaky chipping and chattering, also short, rich, warbled phrases." It also makes "a shart, nasal squihk, a slightly more metallic pli'ik, and a hard, chipping chi'ilrr chik-chik-chik-chik" calls.
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Wedge-tailed Sabrewing
Pampa curvipennis
The wedge-tailed sabrewing is 11.5 to 13.5 cm (4.5 to 5.3 in) long. Males weigh an average of about 6.6 g (0.23 oz) and females 5.0 g (0.18 oz). Their bill is straight, longish, and stout. Adult males have a bright violet crown, metallic green to bronze green upperparts, and bluish green uppertail coverts. Their tail feathers are mostly dull metallic bluish green that becomes purplish black at the ends. The outermost pair have dusky to brownish gray outer webs. Much of their face is dull grayish white to gray, with a white spot behind the eye. Their underparts are brownish gray. Voice: The available descriptions of the wedge-tailed sabrewing's vocalizations apply to the two- or three-subspecies models. (The xeno-canto recordings are from the monotypic species.) Males sing by themselves or in small groups from bare twigs in the forest understory. The song is "a loud, prolonged, gurgling warble interspersed with squeaky chipping".
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