Mealy Parrot

amazona farinosa

Psittacidae,Nestorinae\x00in part) · New World Parrots

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

The account

Description

38-43 cm. Body dull green. Crown variably yellow. Large white bare area around eye. Neck green, the feathers edged dark. The wings have a red carpal edge, a red speculum, and blue tips to the primaries and secondaries. Tail green with a broad yellow terminal area.

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

Where it was recorded

The discs' own checklists select Mealy Parrot at 1 locality.

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.

Ilha São Sebastião SSSB

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 'ca, caja', and high pitched yodeling.

Behavior

Forages in canopy of trees in pairs and groups.

Breeding

Nest in a hole of a tree. November-February.

Habitat and status

Locally uncommon in lowland rainforest. Occurring from coastal Estado São Paulo northwards through Estado Rio de Janeiro (¹²⁴).

Distribution

In Estado São Paulo found at Ilhabela, São Sebastião. Below 600 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. Rio Doçe 11/4/00. Cloudy, 25°C. Primary forest.
Calls. Rio Doçe, 11/3/00. Cloudy, 20°C. Forest edge. With Lepidocolaptes fuscus, unknown hummingbird.
Calls. Rio Doçe 11/3/00. Rain, 18°C. Primary forest.

Recording files on the disc

7975.mp3 Calls. Rio Doçe 11/4/00. Cloudy, 25°C. Primary forest.
14669.mp3 Calls. Rio Doçe, 11/3/00. Cloudy, 20°C. Forest edge. With Lepidocolaptes fuscus, unknown hummingbird.
9105.mp3 Calls. Rio Doçe 11/3/00. Rain, 18°C. Primary 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 edited this account; the sections listed below differ from the Disc 3 release text.

Sections with genuine 2011 edits (vs the Disc 3 release): behavior.

Description Disc 1 · 2011

Voice Disc 1 · 2011