White-eyed Parakeet

aratinga leucophthalmus

Psittacidae,Nestorinae\x00in part) · New World Parrots

Disc 2 · 2001 listed
Disc 3 · 2006 listed
Disc 1 · 2011 listed

The account

Description

32-35 cm. Green with some red spots on the head and neck. Bare orbital ring grayish white. Bend of the wing and wing edge and outermost greater underwing coverts red. Outermost greater wing coverts yellow. Underside of tail, primaries and secondaries olive green.

The immature lacks the red in the wing.

The disc records this picture against the bird without a caption. Disc 3 · 2006

Where it was recorded

The discs' own checklists select White-eyed Parakeet at 12 localities.

Historical checklist localities on the disc's own area map — the red dots the original program drew, placed by its recovered projection. Not a range map: it shows the places whose checklists record the bird, nothing more. 1 recorded locality lies beyond the map's edge and is listed below instead.

How the map was made

The original program computed each red dot at display time from the locality's coordinates, using its map library and one of five base maps drawn for the screen widths of the day. That library's projection — an oblique rotation of the sphere about the map's own centre, 23.7°S 47.4°W — was read from the program and checked against the graticule the same program drew into the base maps: it reproduces every grid intersection to within about a pixel. The dots here use that projection on the 1280-pixel base map, with the coordinates the discs record. Nothing was placed by hand, no modern map data was used, and a place whose coordinate is incomplete, out of range or beyond the map's edge is listed rather than guessed.

The discs carried location maps only; none shows a distribution or range.

Voice

calls sequences of short 'ca ca ca ca....' calls and higher screeching calls 'cirri'.

Behavior

Forages at all heights of trees and higher bushes in groups or single.

Breeding

October-November

Habitat and status

Common in savannah country, caatinga, gardens, parks, eucalyptus groves, scrub and gallery forest.

Distribution

Mostly away from the coast, rare in the littoral. Found in the Serra Mantiqueira and Serra dos Orgãos. In Estado São Paulo found at Bananal, São Jose do Barreiro, Arapei (¹¹⁹). Up to 1600 meters.

Decoded from the disc's own bytes. Each part is shown under the heading the disc files it under, and the wording, spelling and punctuation are the author's.

Vocalizations

Calls. Serra da Canastra, 11/10/98. Cloudy, 25°C. Scrubby slopes.
Calls, T. A. Parker, Jr. LNS52097.
November 2002, Juiz de Fora, MG.

Recording files on the disc

2150.mp3 Calls. Serra da Canastra, 11/10/98. Cloudy, 25°C. Scrubby slopes.
6215.mp3 Calls, T. A. Parker, Jr. LNS52097.
3817.mp3 November 2002, Juiz de Fora, MG.

Across the three discs

The work was published on three discs — Disc 2 in 2001, Disc 3 in 2006 and Disc 1 in 2011. Where they differ, that is a difference between historical releases, and it is never merged away. The 2011 disc is not treated as correcting the earlier ones.

Which discs list this bird

Disc 2 · 2001 — in this disc's bird list
Disc 3 · 2006 — in this disc's bird list
Disc 1 · 2011 — in this disc's bird list

How that was established

Disc 2 · 2001: aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1
Disc 3 · 2006: aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1
Disc 1 · 2011: aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1

The disc's own record fields that place the bird on its list: a non-empty entry in the species table, and the byte that marks it as selected on a local checklist.

Names by release

White-eyed Parakeet aratinga leucopthalmus Disc 2 · 2001
White-eyed Parakeet aratinga leucophthalmus Disc 3 · 2006, Disc 1 · 2011

The account in the Disc 1 · 2011 revision

The 2011 Disc 1 revision carries this account text unchanged from the Disc 3 release.

Recordings and images first listed on Disc 1 · 2011

White-eyed Parakeet — Photo by Fritz Mueller.

Photo by Fritz Mueller. Disc 1 · 2011

Disc file 8193