Plain Parakeet

brotogeris tirica

Psittacidae,Nestorinae\x00in part) · New World Parrots

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

The account

Description

23 cm. Green, slightly more yellowish underneath. Flight feathers and underside of tail bluish green.

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

Where it was recorded

The discs' own checklists select Plain Parakeet at 20 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 has no usable coordinate and is listed below unplotted.

Angra dos Reis ANRB
Boraceia BOSB
Campos do Jordão CASB
Fazenda Intervales FASB
Ilha do Cardoso ILSB
Ilha São Sebastião SSSB
Itirapina ITSB
Jureia-Peruibe JUSB position not recoverable
Nucleo Sta. Virginia NUSP
Parati PARB
PE Carlos Botelho PCSB
PE Jacupiranga PJSB
Reserva Ecológica Guapiacú RERB
Rio de Janeiro RIRB
Serra Bocaina SESB
Serra da Cantareira SRSB
Serra dos Orgãos SRRB
Serra dos Tucanos SDTC
Sete Barras STSB
Ubatuba UBSB

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 'tiric' , 'tiririk', 'tiurr tiurr tiurr...' noisy flocks.

Behavior

Forages in groups or pairs in the canopy of trees.

Breeding

September-December.

Habitat and status

Common in the edge of primary or secondary humid rainforest, dry forest, city parks, gardens, and cultivated lands with scattered groves.

Distribution

Throughout. Up to 1200 meters in the serras.

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

Call. Fazenda Intervales, 11/30/97. Sunny, 27°C. Primary forest.
Calls. Fazenda Intervales, 11/30/97. Sunny, 27°C. Primary forest.
Calls. Fazenda Intervales, 11/30/97. Sunny, 27°C. Secondary forest.
Calls. Fazenda Intervales, 11/30/97. Sunny, 27°C. Secondary forest.
Fazenda Intervales, 11/30/98. Sunny, 25°C. Primary forest.
Calls. 10/16/99, Pereque, near Angra dos Reis. Sunny, 30°C. Open woodland.

Recording files on the disc

7281.mp3 Call. Fazenda Intervales, 11/30/97. Sunny, 27°C. Primary forest.
3957.mp3 Calls. Fazenda Intervales, 11/30/97. Sunny, 27°C. Primary forest.
4540.mp3 Calls. Fazenda Intervales, 11/30/97. Sunny, 27°C. Secondary forest.
2407.mp3 Calls. Fazenda Intervales, 11/30/97. Sunny, 27°C. Secondary forest.
3334.mp3 Fazenda Intervales, 11/30/98. Sunny, 25°C. Primary forest.
476.mp3 Calls. 10/16/99, Pereque, near Angra dos Reis. Sunny, 30°C. Open woodland.

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	brotogeris tirica	Plain Parakeet	Psittacidae,Nestorinae\x00in part)
CLEMENTS	brotogeris tirica	Plain Parakeet	Psittacidae,Nestorinae(in part)
AOU_HM	brotogeris tirica	Plain Parakeet	Psittacidae,Nestorinae(in part)

Source details

Identifier on this site: seb_species_0027
Account identifier: seb_account_0027
Account number on the disc: 27
Source edition: CD03 / 2006 package
Original taxonomy scheme: WORLD
Structure status: heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative