Crimson-crested Woodpecker
campephilus melanoleucos
Picidae,Picinae · Woodpeckers
- Disc 2 · 2001 listed
- Disc 3 · 2006 listed
- Disc 1 · 2011 listed
The account
Description
33-38 cm. Male has the crest, top and sides of head crimson, the area around bill and front part of the moustachial area pale creamy buff. Narrow line across the lower forehead black. Black and white spot on the ear coverts. Throat black. Neck, upper breast and upperparts black with white stripes down the neck and side of mantle meeting in the center of the back. The wings and wing coverts black, the primaries with small white tips and with a small area of white at bases of inner webs. Tail black. Lower breast to crissum pale buffy white barred blackish-brown. Underwings white, with a black stripe along the trailing edge.
The female has less red on the head.
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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 Crimson-crested Woodpecker at 1 locality.
- Barreiro Rico BRSB
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
A nasal 'kwirrah'(Vocalization # 1),'wukwuk','kidada' (vocalization # 2 and 3),drumming a single short blow followed by a short roll 'da-drrrr'(vocalization #2).
Behavior
In pairs or small groups foraging from 5-25 meters height in tall living and dead trees. Excavates rotten stumps.
Breeding
September-November.
Habitat and status
Not uncommon in a variety of forest habitats including primary and secondary humid forest and forest edge, open woodland and parks, goes into savannah woodland and open areas with single large trees.
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. 10/22/99, Serra da Mantiqueira, near Hotel do Ype. Clear, 25°C. Bamboo forest.
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Juan Mazar Barnett
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Call, P. Donahue, LND81494.
Recording files on the disc
- 4358.mp3 Call. 10/22/99, Serra da Mantiqueira, near Hotel do Ype. Clear, 25°C. Bamboo forest.
- 4337.mp3 Juan Mazar Barnett
- 5477.mp3 Call, P. Donahue, LND81494.
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
33-38 cm. Male has the crest, top and sides of head crimson, the area around bill and front part of the moustachial area pale creamy buff. Narrow line across the lower forehead black. Black and white spot on the ear coverts. Throat black. Neck, upper breast and upperparts black with white stripes down the neck and side of mantle meeting in the center of the back. The wings and wing coverts black, the primaries with small white tips and with a small area of white at bases of inner webs. Tail black. Lower bre
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 (156 bytes lost in 2011)
33-38 cm. Male has the crest, top and sides of head crimson, the area around bill and front part of the moustachial area pale creamy buff. Narrow line across the lower forehead black. Black and white spot on the ear coverts. Throat black. Neck, upper breast and upperparts black with white stripes down the neck and side of mantle meeting in the center of the back. The wings and wing coverts black, the primaries with small white tips and with a small area of white at bases of inner webs. Tail black. Lower breast to crissum pale buffy white barred blackish-brown. Underwings white, with a black stripe along the trailing edge.
The female has less red on the head.
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
A nasal 'kwirrah'(Vocalization # 1),'wukwuk','kidada' (vocalization # 2 and 3),drumming a single short blow followed by a short roll 'da-drrrr'(vocalization #2).
Behavior Disc 1 · 2011
In pairs or small groups foraging from 5-25 meters height in tall living and dead trees. Excavates rotten stumps.
Breeding Disc 1 · 2011
September-November.
Habitat and status Disc 1 · 2011
Not uncommon in a variety of forest habitats including primary and secondary humid forest and forest edge, open woodland and parks, goes into savannah woodland and open areas with single large trees.
Distribution Disc 1 · 2011
In Estado São Paulo occurs in dry forest of the interior but stragglers reach São Paulo city (119), Serra Mantiqueira (Remold, unpubl.) and the Serra do Mar (130). Up to 950 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 | campephilus melanoleucos | Crimson-crested Woodpecker | Picidae,Picinae |
| CLEMENTS | campephilus melanoleucos | Crimson-crested Woodpecker | Picidae,Picinae |
| AOU_HM | campephilus melanoleucos | Crimson-crested Woodpecker | Picidae,Picinae |
Source details
- Identifier on this site
- seb_species_0058
- Account identifier
- seb_account_0058
- Account number on the disc
- 58
- Source edition
- CD03 / 2006 package
- Original taxonomy scheme
- WORLD
- Structure status
- heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative