Wing-banded Hornero

furnarius figulus

Furnariidae,Furnariinae · Ovenbirds

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

The account

Description

17 cm; Above light rufous with dark gray crown and rusty front, gray eye stripe, white superciliary and dark gray cheeks. primaries black with two rusty bands across. Tail rufous, feathers with black outer tips. below light buffy olive, throat whitish, legs grayish-brown.

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

Where it was recorded

The discs' own checklists select Wing-banded Hornero at 5 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.

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

Call a series of staccato notes consisting of single "tuk...tuk..." syllables which have a lower pitch than the calls of other Horneros. Song is a series of notes which become slower and lower in pitch. Also a loud cry like "kweeh" (³⁰).

Behavior

A species of bushy, open areas, such as farm land, apparently mostly close to water, quite confident, less noisy than Furnarius rufus.

Habitat and status

Listed as a scarce resident for the Serra dos Orgãos area (¹⁵). Listed as rare for the Reserva Ecológica de Guapiacú near Cachoeira de Macacu, Estado Rio de Janeiro. Might expand into Northern Estado Rio de Janeiro and has possibly benefited from deforestation.

Distribution

Mostly extralimital, Minas Gerais and Espiritu Santo. A pair at Reserva Chico Mendes east of Rio de Janeiro (11/8/2002, Remold unpubl.).

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

Near Lima Duarte, Minas Gerais, 10/20/00. Agricultural area with pond and scrubby field corners. Sunny, 28°C.

Recording files on the disc

767.wav Near Lima Duarte, Minas Gerais, 10/20/00. Agricultural area with pond and scrubby field corners. Sunny, 28°C.

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	furnarius figulus	Wing-banded Hornero	Furnariidae,Furnariinae
CLEMENTS	furnarius figulus	Wing-banded Hornero	Furnariidae,Furnariinae
AOU_HM	furnarius figulus	Wing-banded Hornero	Furnariidae,Furnariinae

Source details

Identifier on this site: seb_species_0060
Account identifier: seb_account_0060
Account number on the disc: 60
Source edition: CD03 / 2006 package
Original taxonomy scheme: WORLD
Structure status: heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative