Narrow-billed Woodcreeper

lepidocolaptes angustirostris

Dendrocolaptidae · Woodcreepers

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

The account

Description

20 cm. Bill rather long, decurved, pinkish yellow. Crown and nape blackish with white superciliary stripe. Ear coverts blackish. Back, wings and tail bright rusty. Throat white. Below whitish buff with grey streaking.

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

Where it was recorded

The discs' own checklists select Narrow-billed Woodcreeper at 9 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

Single notes sounding like 'pshirrr' or 'tshirrr'. Song a descending whistle 'piu piu piu pee pee pee peepeededede'. Consult also ¹⁰¹.

Behavior

Scaling trees, often low in scrubs and thickets.

Breeding

Breeds in tree holes, occasionally in buildings (³⁰).

Habitat and status

Relatively common. Occurs in gallery forest; open forest; open country with a few trees; not found in dense forests

Distribution

Throughout, although more common away from the coast.

Taxonomy notes

An open country species which has invaded coastal areas due to deforestation.

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

Call. Cornell Cat#19073. Fazenda Silencio, Itaqui, Rio Grande do Sul. Recording by W. Belton.
Song. Cornell Cat#52033. Campamento los Fierros, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 09/03/89. Recording by T. A. Parker, III.
Song, Pirapora, Minas Gerais, 11/13/98, Cerrado, sunny, 30°C. With Hylocryptus rectirostris, Basileuterus flaveolus.

Recording files on the disc

6110.wav Call. Cornell Cat#19073. Fazenda Silencio, Itaqui, Rio Grande do Sul. Recording by W. Belton.
2811.wav Song. Cornell Cat#52033. Campamento los Fierros, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 09/03/89. Recording by T. A. Parker, III.
4197.mp3 Song, Pirapora, Minas Gerais, 11/13/98, Cerrado, sunny, 30°C. With Hylocryptus rectirostris, Basileuterus flaveolus.

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	lepidocolaptes angustirostris	Narrow-billed Woodcreeper	Dendrocolaptidae
CLEMENTS	lepidocolaptes angustirostris	Narrow-billed Woodcreeper	Dendrocolaptidae
AOU_HM	lepidocolaptes angustirostris	Narrow-billed Woodcreeper	Dendrocolaptidae

Source details

Identifier on this site: seb_species_0102
Account identifier: seb_account_0102
Account number on the disc: 102
Source edition: CD03 / 2006 package
Original taxonomy scheme: WORLD
Structure status: heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative