Original account 74 · seb_species_0074

Itatiaia Thistletail

oreophylax moreirae

Furnariidae,Synallaxinae

From the original CD

Complete decoded account text

7.4 Olive-brown above with an indistinct buff superciliary. Olive-brown wings and tail. Tail very long. Rusty throat patch. Below buff gray, the throat and abdomen lighter. Flanks brownish. <NImmature has narrow brown barring on the chest. Song | A fast high "zizizizirrrr... zizizizizizirrrr... zizizizizizizirrrrr" and variations thereof. Call | "ziieee... zieee...." Moves around inconspicuously close to the ground in dense scrub and grass. When singing, it is frequently exposed on top of a bush. Usually in pairs. Nest described by Sick ^30 as being in bushes, round with a high side entrance. An endemic spinetail occurring above the tree limit in the highest mountains of Southeast Brazil. Common in low scrubby areas interspersed with grassy patches and rocks. Est. Rio de Janeiro Serra dos Org<C4>os, Serra Mantiqueira, Desengano State Park and adjacent peaks in Est. S<C4>o Paulo at elevations from 1900-2800 meters. See ^52. Put in the genus Schizoeaca by Vaurie ^41 . 912 Song. Serra da Mantiqueira, 11<10>18<10>98. Sunny, 20<91>C. High altitude scrub. With /Turdus rufiventris song and call , /Phylloscartes difficilis .: 15989 Song. Serra da Mantiqueira, 11<10>18<10>98. Sunny, 20<91>C. High altitude scrub. With /Turdus rufiventris, Thamnophilus ruficapillus .: 14790 Song. 10<10>20<10>99, Serra da Mantiqueira, Agulhas Negras road. Clear, 25<91>C. High altitude scrub, 2000 meters.: 8206 Calls. 10<10>20<10>99, Serra da Mantiqueira, Agulhas Negras road. Clear 20<91>C. High altitude scrub, 2200 meters.: 6335 Call. Cornell Cat 32214. Itatiaia, Agulhas Negras road, Rio de Janeiro, 11<10>26<10>82. Recording by T. A. Parker, III.: 2417 Song. Cornell Cat 32215. Itatiaia, Agulhas Negras road, Rio de Janeiro, 11<10>26<10>82. Recording by T. A. Parker, III.: 9438 >: A6 Agulhas Negras Road, Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro, 1999, November, Photograph by Fritz Mueller.:

Character status: partial decoder; angle-bracket byte markers are preserved

Recovered structure; field assignment may be heuristic

Structured account sections

Description

Voice

Song | A fast high "zizizizirrrr... zizizizizizirrrr... zizizizizizizirrrrr" and variations thereof. Call | "ziieee... zieee...."

Behavior

Moves around inconspicuously close to the ground in dense scrub and grass. When singing, it is frequently exposed on top of a bush. Usually in pairs.

Breeding

Nest described by Sick ^30 as being in bushes, round with a high side entrance.

Habitat and status

An endemic spinetail occurring above the tree limit in the highest mountains of Southeast Brazil. Common in low scrubby areas interspersed with grassy patches and rocks.

Distribution

Est. Rio de Janeiro Serra dos Org<C4>os, Serra Mantiqueira, Desengano State Park and adjacent peaks in Est. S<C4>o Paulo at elevations from 1900-2800 meters. See ^52.

Additional notes

Put in the genus Schizoeaca by Vaurie ^41 .

Structure status: heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative

Release-specific historical evidence — the three releases remain separate; none is canonical

Release history

This work was published as three separate releases: the Disc 3 release first, the Disc 2 release later, and the Disc 1 release in 2011. Differences between them are historical release differences and are never merged.

Disc 3 in this release's bird list (aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1)
Disc 2 in this release's bird list (aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1)
Disc 1 (2011) in this release's bird list (aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1)

The account in the Disc 1 (2011) revision

The 2011 Disc 1 revision carries this account text unchanged from the Disc 3 release.

Disc 1 (2011) media entries not in the accepted layer above

9332 Disc 1 (2011)

9332 Agulhas Negras Road, Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro, 1999, November, Photograph by Fritz Mueller.:

No corresponding file survives on any preserved disc. The historical entry above is retained as metadata.

Historical taxonomy

WORLD

oreophylax moreirae

Itatiaia Thistletail

Furnariidae,Synallaxinae

Spinetails,Castaneros

CLEMENTS

oreophylax moreirae

Itatiaia Thistletail

Furnariidae,Synallaxinae

Spinetails,Castaneros

AOU_HM

oreophylax moreirae

Itatiaia Thistletail

Furnariidae,Synallaxinae

Spinetails,Castaneros

Recordings

912.wav

912 Song. Serra da Mantiqueira, 11<10>18<10>98. Sunny, 20<91>C. High altitude scrub. With /Turdus rufiventris song and call , /Phylloscartes difficilis .

Historical relationship: account_audio; status: retained_v1_0_1; source order: 1.