Little Woodpecker

veniliornis passerinus

Picidae,Picinae · Woodpeckers

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

The account

Description

14-15 cm. Male has a variable amount of red on the crown and indistinct red streaks on the mantle. Forehead grayish green. Olive-green above. Barred olive and whitish below. Wings and outer tail feathers olive-green with whitish barring. Thin white mustachial streak.

The female is without red on head.

Male Disc 3 · 2006
Female Disc 3 · 2006

Each plate is labelled with the disc's own caption.

Where it was recorded

The discs' own checklists select Little Woodpecker at 9 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 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.

Voice

A high pitched 'kikikikikikiki', increasing in pitch. Also a wik-wik-wik' (¹²⁸).

Behavior

Forages alone, in pairs or in mixed flocks from low in trees, scrub, bamboo, to high in the canopy.

Breeding

October-March.

Habitat and status

Not uncommon in wood lots, forest border, gallery forest.

Distribution

Occurs mostly inland but might appear in areas closer to the coast. To 400 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

April 12, 2003, Araras Eco Lodge, Pocone, MT. Recorded by Jeremy Minns.
November 2004, Minas Gerais.

Recording files on the disc

2527.mp3 April 12, 2003, Araras Eco Lodge, Pocone, MT. Recorded by Jeremy Minns.
10436.mp3 November 2004, Minas Gerais.

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	veniliornis passerinus	Little Woodpecker	Picidae,Picinae
CLEMENTS	veniliornis passerinus	Little Woodpecker	Picidae,Picinae
AOU_HM	veniliornis passerinus	Little Woodpecker	Picidae,Picinae

Source details

Identifier on this site: seb_species_0046
Account identifier: seb_account_0046
Account number on the disc: 46
Source edition: CD03 / 2006 package
Original taxonomy scheme: WORLD
Structure status: heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative