Campo Miner

geobates poeciloptera

Furnariidae,Furnariinae · Ovenbirds

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

The account

Description

12.5 cm. Buff brown above, shitish-buff below. Light buff superciliary. Throat white. Chest with fine brown flammulation on white. Two rufous bands across the primaries. The secondaries are mistly rufous, as are the underwing coverts. Tail short and rufous with an extensive subterminal band black and with mostly dusky central tail feathers. Tail tips whitish buff.

Juvenile plumage with less distinct flammulation on chest, the terminal buff band of tail is less obvious and with lighter spots on back.

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

Voice

Song is a repeated 'zliip' (⁴⁴).

Behavior

Running and foraging on the ground. Rarely perches on scrubs or low bushes.

Habitat and status

Rare in grassy campo, mostly away from trees and taller bushes. According to Ridgely and Tudor (⁴⁴) likes freshly burned areas.

Distribution

Largely extralimital. The interior of south-central Brazil. Might be found locally closer to the coast in suitable habitat. Recorded in 1931 from Itapetininga, Estado São Paulo (⁴⁹). 500 - 1200 meter (⁴⁴).

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.

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
Disc 3 · 2006: aux_nonzero
Disc 1 · 2011: aux_nonzero

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	geobates poeciloptera	Campo Miner	Furnariidae,Furnariinae
CLEMENTS	geobates poeciloptera	Campo Miner	Furnariidae,Furnariinae
AOU_HM	geositta poeciloptera	Campo Miner	Furnariidae,Furnariinae

Source details

Identifier on this site: seb_species_0059
Account identifier: seb_account_0059
Account number on the disc: 59
Source edition: CD03 / 2006 package
Original taxonomy scheme: WORLD
Structure status: heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative