White-browed Woodpecker
piculus aurulentus
Picidae,Picinae · Woodpeckers
- Disc 2 · 2001 listed
- Disc 3 · 2006 listed
- Disc 1 · 2011 listed
The account
Description
21-22 cm. The male has a bright red crown, extending from the forehead to the nape, with a thin olive border. A narrow yellow supercilium extends from the eye to the side of the nape. Area around the eye, ear coverts and posterior neck sides, dark olive green. Pale yellow band from the lores to the side of the neck. Red malar stripe becoming green. Pale yellow chin and throat. Upperparts green, the flight feathers dark brown. Upper tail blackish, the feathers edged greenish. Underparts whitish, broadly barred olive.
The female has the forehead and crown olive and only a little red in the malar stripe.
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The disc records this picture against the bird without a caption. Disc 3 · 2006
Where it was recorded
The discs' own checklists select White-browed Woodpecker at 13 localities.
- Boraceia BOSB
- Campos do Jordão CASB
- Fazenda Intervales FASB
- Jureia-Peruibe JUSB position not recoverable
- Nucleo Sta. Virginia NUSP
- Parati PARB
- PE Carlos Botelho PCSB
- Reserva Ecológica Guapiacú RERB
- Serra Bocaina SESB
- Serra da Cantareira SRSB
- Serra dos Orgãos SRRB
- Serra dos Tucanos SDTC
- 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.
The account, continued
Voice
Descending 'eeeww' and a diagnostic double call 'ti ti', repeated several times.
Behavior
Forages singly or in pairs in the middle stratum of the canopy of trees; gleans from branches.
Breeding
September in Argentina (129).
Habitat and status
Rare in montane forest, scrub and forest border.
Distribution
Throughout. Willis and Oniki report this species from Boraceia, Nucleo Sta. Virginia, the Serra da Cantareira, PE Carlos Botelho, Itararé, Itapirapua, Fazenda Intervales, Alto do Ribeira, Campos do Jordão,and the Serra Bocaina (119). I have found this species also at Itatiaia (unpubl.). 750-2000 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
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Call. Fazenda Intervales, 11/30/97. Sunny, 27°C. Primary forest. With Leptotila verreauxi.
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Call. 10/17/99, Nucleo Sta. Virginia. Misty, 15°C. Degraded forest. With Stephanophorus diadematus.
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Calls. 10/22/99, Serra da Mantiqueira, near Hotel do Ype. Clear, 25°C. Primary forest.
Recording files on the disc
- 351.mp3 Call. Fazenda Intervales, 11/30/97. Sunny, 27°C. Primary forest. With Leptotila verreauxi.
- 10983.mp3 Call. 10/17/99, Nucleo Sta. Virginia. Misty, 15°C. Degraded forest. With Stephanophorus diadematus.
- 11475.mp3 Calls. 10/22/99, Serra da Mantiqueira, near Hotel do Ype. Clear, 25°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
In the 2011 Disc 1 revision, part of this account was truncated at exactly 512 bytes (a 2011 mastering defect). The earlier releases preserve the complete text.
Truncated sections in the 2011 revision: description. The complete earlier text is shown beneath each truncated section.
Description Disc 1 · 2011
21-22 cm. The male has a bright red crown, extending from the forehead to the nape, with a thin olive border. A narrow yellow supercilium extends from the eye to the side of the nape. Area around the eye, ear coverts and posterior neck sides, dark olive green. Pale yellow band from the lores to the side of the neck. Red malar stripe becoming green. Pale yellow chin and throat. Upperparts green, the flight feathers dark brown. Upper tail blackish, the feathers edged greenish. Underparts whitish, broadly barr
Disc 1 (2011) text ends here — truncated at exactly 512 bytes in the 2011 mastering (historical defect, kept as recovered).
Complete earlier text — Disc 3 · 2006 (98 bytes lost in 2011)
21-22 cm. The male has a bright red crown, extending from the forehead to the nape, with a thin olive border. A narrow yellow supercilium extends from the eye to the side of the nape. Area around the eye, ear coverts and posterior neck sides, dark olive green. Pale yellow band from the lores to the side of the neck. Red malar stripe becoming green. Pale yellow chin and throat. Upperparts green, the flight feathers dark brown. Upper tail blackish, the feathers edged greenish. Underparts whitish, broadly barred olive.
The female has the forehead and crown olive and only a little red in the malar stripe.
Shown for comparison from the Disc 3 · 2006; it does not repair or replace the Disc 1 · 2011 historical text above.
Voice Disc 1 · 2011
Descending 'eeeww' and a diagnostic double call 'ti ti', repeated several times.
Behavior Disc 1 · 2011
Forages singly or in pairs in the middle stratum of the canopy of trees; gleans from branches.
Breeding Disc 1 · 2011
September in Argentina (129).
Habitat and status Disc 1 · 2011
Rare in montane forest, scrub and forest border.
Distribution Disc 1 · 2011
Throughout. Willis and Oniki report this species from Boraceia, Nucleo Sta. Virginia, the Serra da Cantareira, PE Carlos Botelho, Itararé, Itapirapua, Fazenda Intervales, Alto do Ribeira, Campos do Jordão,and the Serra Bocaina (119). I have found this species also at Itatiaia (unpubl.). 750-2000 meters
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 | piculus aurulentus | White-browed Woodpecker | Picidae,Picinae |
| CLEMENTS | piculus aurulentus | White-browed Woodpecker | Picidae,Picinae |
| AOU_HM | piculus aurulentus | White-browed Woodpecker | Picidae,Picinae |
Source details
- Identifier on this site
- seb_species_0051
- Account identifier
- seb_account_0051
- Account number on the disc
- 51
- Source edition
- CD03 / 2006 package
- Original taxonomy scheme
- WORLD
- Structure status
- heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative