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| − | <div style="{{psubheader}}">Featured Article: '''[[ | + | <div style="{{psubheader}}">Featured Article: '''[[Smooth-billed Ani]]'''</div> |
| − | [[Image: | + | [[Image:Smooth-billed_Ani.jpg|thumb|350px|left|Photo © by {{user|Deca|Deca}} <br />Gonçalves, Mato Groso, [[Brazil]], August 2003]] |
| + | ==Identification== | ||
| + | Overall black with a faint bluish [[Dictionary D-F#D|iridescence]] on neck, wings and tail, and a strong, vaguely parrot-like bill. | ||
| − | + | Tail is long and rounded, and the flight looks weak with rapid wing-beats alternating with glides. | |
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| − | == | + | ==Similar Species== |
| − | + | Easily mistaken for the [[Groove-billed Ani]] (''Crotophaga sulcirostris'') in the area of overlap. The Smooth-billed is slightly larger and its bill has a more arched culmen (esp. noticeable at basal part of [[Topography#Beaks|culmen]], where downward curve towards forehead is stronger than in Groove-billed) and no grooves in the upper [[Topography#Beaks|mandible]]. They can also be separated by the voice. | |
| + | Confusion also possible with the [[Greater Ani]], which is larger, longer-tailed, longer-billed, has a more iridescent plumage and yellow eyes (careful; juv. Greater Ani with reduced iridescence and dark eyes similar to those of the Smooth-billed). | ||
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Revision as of 11:34, 1 September 2023
Identification
Overall black with a faint bluish iridescence on neck, wings and tail, and a strong, vaguely parrot-like bill.
Tail is long and rounded, and the flight looks weak with rapid wing-beats alternating with glides.
Similar Species
Easily mistaken for the Groove-billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris) in the area of overlap. The Smooth-billed is slightly larger and its bill has a more arched culmen (esp. noticeable at basal part of culmen, where downward curve towards forehead is stronger than in Groove-billed) and no grooves in the upper mandible. They can also be separated by the voice.
Confusion also possible with the Greater Ani, which is larger, longer-tailed, longer-billed, has a more iridescent plumage and yellow eyes (careful; juv. Greater Ani with reduced iridescence and dark eyes similar to those of the Smooth-billed).
