Pileated Parrot

pionopsitta pileata

Psittacidae,Nestorinae\x00in part) · New World Parrots

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

The account

Description

22 cm. In the male the forehead, crown and lores to upper ear-coverts are red; the rest of body is green with yellowish on abdomen.

The female has a green head and a bluish suffusion on the forehead and breast. Primary coverts, edges of the outer wing-coverts and tail feathers dull blue. Central two tail feathers green with blue tips.

Left: male, right: female Disc 3 · 2006

Where it was recorded

The discs' own checklists select Pileated Parrot at 18 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.

Boraceia BOSB
Campos do Jordão CASB
Fazenda Intervales FASB
Ilha do Cardoso ILSB
Ilha São Sebastião SSSB
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 Bocaina SESB
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 a high pitched "tiri' (vocalizations # 1 and 2), but not always clearly separate from the calls of Touit melanonota which is supposed to be tri-syllablic (¹¹⁹).

Behavior

Forages in small groups in the canopy of trees.

Breeding

In November (¹²⁰), nest in hole of tree.

Habitat and status

Not uncommon in foothill and lower montane forest in the serras and littoral.

Distribution

In Estado Rio de Janeiro found in the Serra dos Orgãos and Itatiaia. In Estado São Paulo found at Timburi, Bertioga, Sete Barras, Boraceia, Guaratuba, PE Carlos Botelho, Fazenda Intervales, PE Jacupiranga, Alto do Ribeira, Campos do Jordão, Serra Bocaina (¹¹⁹), Ubatumirim (Remold, H., unpubl.). Up to 1500 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. Picinguaba, east of Ubatuba, 11/20/98. Cloudy, 20°C. Primary rainforest.
Calls. 10/27/99, Campos do Jordão, road to São Jose dos Alpes. Clear, 25°C. Open forest. With Turdus rufiventris.
Calls, W. Belton, LNS18897.

Recording files on the disc

12996.mp3 Calls. Picinguaba, east of Ubatuba, 11/20/98. Cloudy, 20°C. Primary rainforest.
1012.mp3 Calls. 10/27/99, Campos do Jordão, road to São Jose dos Alpes. Clear, 25°C. Open forest. With Turdus rufiventris.
4264.mp3 Calls, W. Belton, LNS18897.

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	pionopsitta pileata	Pileated Parrot	Psittacidae,Nestorinae\x00in part)
CLEMENTS	pionopsitta pileata	Pileated Parrot	Psittacidae,Nestorinae(in part)
AOU_HM	pionopsitta pileata	Pileated Parrot	Psittacidae,Nestorinae(in part)

Source details

Identifier on this site: seb_species_0031
Account identifier: seb_account_0031
Account number on the disc: 31
Source edition: CD03 / 2006 package
Original taxonomy scheme: WORLD
Structure status: heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative