Large Elaenia
elaenia spectabilis
Tyrannidae,Elaeninae · Tyrannulets
- Disc 2 · 2001 listed
- Disc 3 · 2006 listed
- Disc 1 · 2011 listed
The account
Description
18 cm. Similar to Elaenia flavogaster in appearance, but with a shorter crest and less white in the crown patch. Above olive-gray. Wings grayish black, with three white wing bars (because the lesser coverts also have a whitish tips). Light gray below, the belly yellowish-white.
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The disc records this picture against the bird without a caption. Disc 3 · 2006
The account, continued
Voice
Call a characteristic repeated 'wichu', sometimes with the first syllable omitted 'chu' or 'cha'. (Listen to the last track of this species on 38). Song a three syllable repeated 'plipliplu'.
Behavior
This bird is not as conspicuous and noisy as Elaenia flavogaster.
Habitat and status
Fairly common. An inhabitant of open scrub, forest borders and groups of trees, even farmland.
Distribution
Can be found almost anywhere during migration. Extralimital in the interior, e. g. in Estado São Paulo found near Itapura (40).
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. Serra da Canastra, 11/10/98. Cloudy, 25°C. Rural country with bushes and single trees, hedges.
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Song? Cornell Cat#19366, Garruchos, São Borja, Rio Grande do Sul, 11/21/77. Recording by W. Belton.
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Call. Cornell Cat#19367, Uruguaiana, Arroio Quarai-chico, Rio Grande do Sul, 11/13/76. With Zonotrichia capensis. Recording by W. Belton.
Recording files on the disc
- 7354.wav Call. Serra da Canastra, 11/10/98. Cloudy, 25°C. Rural country with bushes and single trees, hedges.
- 196.wav Song? Cornell Cat#19366, Garruchos, São Borja, Rio Grande do Sul, 11/21/77. Recording by W. Belton.
- 9000.wav Call. Cornell Cat#19367, Uruguaiana, Arroio Quarai-chico, Rio Grande do Sul, 11/13/76. With Zonotrichia capensis. Recording by W. Belton.
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 | elaenia spectabilis | Large Elaenia | Tyrannidae,Elaeninae |
| CLEMENTS | elaenia spectabilis | Large Elaenia | Tyrannidae,Elaeninae |
| AOU_HM | elaenia spectabilis | Large Elaenia | Tyrannidae,Elaeninae |
Source details
- Identifier on this site
- seb_species_0192
- Account identifier
- seb_account_0192
- Account number on the disc
- 192
- Source edition
- CD03 / 2006 package
- Original taxonomy scheme
- WORLD
- Structure status
- heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative