Golden-capped Parakeet

aratinga auricapilla

Psittacidae,Nestorinae\x00in part) · New World Parrots

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

The account

Description

30 cm. Area around eye to forehead red, changing to orange on the forecrown and to yellow on the midcrown. Head, neck, body and wings deep green. Lower breast to belly red. Lower back and rump with feathers edged red. Tips of the primaries and the whole of the secondaries blue. Underwing coverts orange red. Underside of tail dark reddish-gray. Orbital skin grayish.

The immature has less red and yellow on the head.

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

Where it was recorded

The discs' own checklists select Golden-capped Parakeet at 2 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.

Reserva Ecológica Guapiacú RERB
Serra dos Tucanos SDTC

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

Call 'crii crii' or 'jea jea' very similar to the common call of Cyanocitta cristata of eastern North America., also high 'creee', 'crr crr..'

Behavior

Forages in trees in small groups or as singles.

Breeding

October.

Habitat and status

Uncommon to rare in dry forest and edge, single trees or tree groups, cerrado, caatinga, gallery forest, gardens.

Distribution

Mostly extralimital away from coastal areas in Estado São Paulo, Minas Gerais. Declining due to forest clearance and the bird trade. Maps show a wide distribution in Estado São Paulo and Estado Rio de Janeiro reaching the coastal areas, but no recent records from the vicinity of the coast are known (¹²⁰), (¹²⁴) . Up to 2100 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, 11/9/98. Sunny. Scrubby slopes. With Troglodytes aedon.
Calls. Serra da Canastra, 11/10/98. Cloudy, 25°C. Scrubby slopes.
Call. Rio Doçe, 11/4/00. Cloudy, 18°C. Primary forest.
Calls, Rio Doce State Park, Timoteo, MG, November 2, 2001, cloudy, 25°C, secondary forest.

Recording files on the disc

6936.mp3 Calls. Serra da Canastra, 11/9/98. Sunny. Scrubby slopes. With Troglodytes aedon.
12566.mp3 Calls. Serra da Canastra, 11/10/98. Cloudy, 25°C. Scrubby slopes.
11364.mp3 Call. Rio Doçe, 11/4/00. Cloudy, 18°C. Primary forest.
6848.mp3 Calls, Rio Doce State Park, Timoteo, MG, November 2, 2001, cloudy, 25°C, secondary forest.

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.

The account in the Disc 1 · 2011 revision

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

The work's own taxonomy

The discs carried three parallel name schemes. All three are shown as recovered; none is a modern taxonomy and none has been updated.

Scheme	Scientific name	English name	Family
WORLD	aratinga auricapilla	Golden-capped Parakeet	Psittacidae,Nestorinae\x00in part)
CLEMENTS	aratinga auricapilla	Golden-capped Parakeet	Psittacidae,Nestorinae(in part)
AOU_HM	aratinga auricapilla	Golden-capped Parakeet	Psittacidae,Nestorinae(in part)

Source details

Identifier on this site: seb_species_0021
Account identifier: seb_account_0021
Account number on the disc: 21
Source edition: CD03 / 2006 package
Original taxonomy scheme: WORLD
Structure status: heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative