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White Woodpecker

melanerpes candidus

Picidae,Picinae · Woodpeckers

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

The account

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

Where it was recorded

The discs' own checklists select White Woodpecker at 13 localities.

The disc's own area map with 12 of White Woodpecker's checklist localities marked Assis Barreiro Rico Fazenda Campininha Itirapina Marica Nucleo Sta. Virginia Parati PE Jacupiranga Reserva Ecológica Guapiacú Rio de Janeiro Serra da Cantareira Serra dos Tucanos
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 recorded locality lies beyond the map's edge and is listed below instead.
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.

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. 10/18/99, Serra da Mantiqueira, above Hotel do Ype, (above 1600 meters). Clouds, foggy, showers, 23°C. Primary forest, bamboo.
  • Calls. Fazenda Intervales. 10/25/00. Cloudy, 20°C, thunderstorms. Open secondary forest border and fields near Sede. With Turdus rufiventris.
Recording files on the disc
  • 284.mp3 Call. 10/18/99, Serra da Mantiqueira, above Hotel do Ype, (above 1600 meters). Clouds, foggy, showers, 23°C. Primary forest, bamboo.
  • 15418.mp3 Calls. Fazenda Intervales. 10/25/00. Cloudy, 20°C, thunderstorms. Open secondary forest border and fields near Sede. With Turdus rufiventris.

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 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.

SchemeScientific nameEnglish nameFamily
WORLD melanerpes candidus White Woodpecker Picidae,Picinae
CLEMENTS melanerpes candidus White Woodpecker Picidae,Picinae
AOU_HM melanerpes candidus White Woodpecker Picidae,Picinae
Source details
Identifier on this site
seb_species_0043
Account identifier
seb_account_0043
Account number on the disc
43
Source edition
CD03 / 2006 package
Original taxonomy scheme
WORLD
Structure status
heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative