Blue-winged Parrotlet
forpus xanthopterygius
Psittacidae,Nestorinae\x00in part) · New World Parrots
- Disc 2 · 2001 listed
- Disc 3 · 2006 listed
- Disc 1 · 2011 listed
The account
Description
12-13 cm.
Male green, somewhat lighter below. Emerald green around the eye. Bend of the wing, primary and secondary coverts, underwing covers, lower back and rump blue.
The female is without blue.
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Male Disc 3 · 2006
Where it was recorded
The discs' own checklists select Blue-winged Parrotlet at 22 localities.
- Angra dos Reis ANRB
- Barreiro Rico BRSB
- Boraceia BOSB
- Fazenda Campininha FZSB
- Fazenda Intervales FASB
- Fazenda Paraiso PASB
- Ilha São Sebastião SSSB
- Itirapina ITSB
- Jureia-Peruibe JUSB position not recoverable
- Nucleo Sta. Virginia NUSP
- Parati PARB
- Pariquera-Abaixo PESB
- PE Carlos Botelho PCSB
- PE Jacupiranga PJSB
- Reserva Ecológica Guapiacú RERB
- Rio de Janeiro RIRB
- Serra da Cantareira SRSB
- Serra dos Orgãos SRRB
- Serra dos Tucanos SDTC
- Sete Barras STSB
- Ubatuba UBSB
- Vassununga VASB
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.
The account, continued
Voice
Call 'zizizizizizi', high pitched.
Behavior
Forages in trees in groups and in pairs. Also in high and low scrub, grassy areas. Sometimes forages on the ground.
Habitat and status
Common, borders of forest, gallery forest. semi-arid scrub, parks, gardens, palm groves, plantations.
Distribution
Throughout the littoral and inland. To 1200 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
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Calls. Pirapora, 11/13/98. Cloudy, 25°C. 0pen country near river.
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Calls. Pirapora, 11/13/98. Sunny, 30°C. 0pen scrub. With Furnarius leucopus.
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Calls, T. A. Parker, Jr., LNS37611.
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Calls, T. A. Parker, Jr., LNS22086.
Recording files on the disc
- 7766.mp3 Calls. Pirapora, 11/13/98. Cloudy, 25°C. 0pen country near river.
- 9007.mp3 Calls. Pirapora, 11/13/98. Sunny, 30°C. 0pen scrub. With Furnarius leucopus.
- 3017.mp3 Calls, T. A. Parker, Jr., LNS37611.
- 10527.mp3 Calls, T. A. Parker, Jr., LNS22086.
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 edited this account; the sections listed below differ from the Disc 3 release text.
Sections with genuine 2011 edits (vs the Disc 3 release): habitat_status.
Description Disc 1 · 2011
12-13 cm.
Male green, somewhat lighter below. Emerald green around the eye. Bend of the wing, primary and secondary coverts, underwing covers, lower back and rump blue.
The female is without blue.
Voice Disc 1 · 2011
Call 'zizizizizizi', high pitched.
Behavior Disc 1 · 2011
Forages in trees in groups and in pairs. Also in high and low scrub, grassy areas. Sometimes forages on the ground.
Habitat and status Disc 1 · 2011
Common in borders of forest, gallery forest, semi-arid scrub, parks, gardens, palm groves, plantations.
Distribution Disc 1 · 2011
Throughout the littoral and inland. To 1200 meters
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 | forpus xanthopterygius | Blue-winged Parrotlet | Psittacidae,Nestorinae\x00in part) |
| CLEMENTS | forpus xanthopterygius | Blue-winged Parrotlet | Psittacidae,Nestorinae(in part) |
| AOU_HM | forpus xanthopterygius | Blue-winged Parrotlet | Psittacidae,Nestorinae(in part) |
Source details
- Identifier on this site
- seb_species_0026
- Account identifier
- seb_account_0026
- Account number on the disc
- 26
- Source edition
- CD03 / 2006 package
- Original taxonomy scheme
- WORLD
- Structure status
- heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative