Original account 226 · seb_species_0226

Brown-breasted Bamboo-Tyrant

hemitriccus obsoletus

Tyrannidae,Elaeninae

From the original CD

Complete decoded account text

11 cm. A tyrant of the highlands, not confined to bamboo thickets. Buff ochre above with an olive touch. A bright buff eye-spot in front of the eye. Wings and tail darker without bars. A staccato sequence of hard, dry "tik...tik...tik...." notes of varying speed, sometimes drawn together into a dry trill cut 4 . Forages in dense undergrowth of montane forest by performing upward strikes and perch gleaning. Hard to observe. The nest is a big pocket attached to the leaves of orchids with a side entrance ^77 . Common above 700 meters in humid primary and secondary montane forest, scrub and forest borders. Throughout. <8E>Serra dos Org<C4>os, Serra do Mar, Serra Mantiqueira, Fazenda Intervales<8E>. Up to 2200 meters. Endemic to Brazil 12818 Calls, above Ubatuba, Nucleo Sta. Virginia, 10<10>30<10>93. Cloudy, 26<91>C. Scrub, border of rainforest. With /Hylopezus nattereri, Conopophaga lineata, Saltator similis .: 14508 Calls, above Ubatuba, Nucleo Sta. Virginia, 10<10>31<10>93. Clear, 25<91>C, scrub: 2265 Call. Serra Bocaina, near S. Jose do Barreiro, 11<10>3<10>93. Cloudy, 22<91>C. Secondary forest, scrub: 7994 Call. Serra Bocaina, near S. Jose do Barreiro, 11<10>4<10>93. Sunny, 25<91>C. Secondary scrub: 10946 Calls. 10<10>17<10>99, Nucleo Sta. Virginia. Misty, 15<91>C. Scrub with trees.: 1587 Calls. Fazenda Intervales, Barra Grande road. 10<10>25<10>00. Cloudy, 20<91>C. Bamboo forest.: 15870 >:

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

Recovered structure; field assignment may be heuristic

Structured account sections

Description

11 cm. A tyrant of the highlands, not confined to bamboo thickets. Buff ochre above with an olive touch. A bright buff eye-spot in front of the eye. Wings and tail darker without bars.

Voice

A staccato sequence of hard, dry "tik...tik...tik...." notes of varying speed, sometimes drawn together into a dry trill cut 4 .

Behavior

Forages in dense undergrowth of montane forest by performing upward strikes and perch gleaning. Hard to observe.

Breeding

The nest is a big pocket attached to the leaves of orchids with a side entrance ^77 .

Habitat and status

Common above 700 meters in humid primary and secondary montane forest, scrub and forest borders.

Distribution

Throughout. <8E>Serra dos Org<C4>os, Serra do Mar, Serra Mantiqueira, Fazenda Intervales<8E>. Up to 2200 meters.

Additional notes

Endemic to Brazil

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)

Names by release

Brown-breasted Bamboo-Tyrant hemitriccus obsoletus Disc 3, Disc 1 (2011)
Brown-breasted Pygmy-Tyrant hemitriccus obsoletus Disc 2

The account in the Disc 1 (2011) revision

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

Historical taxonomy

WORLD

hemitriccus obsoletus

Brown-breasted Bamboo-Tyrant

Tyrannidae,Elaeninae

Tyrannulets

CLEMENTS

hemitriccus obsoletus

Brown-breasted Pygmy-Tyrant

Tyrannidae,Elaeninae

Tyrannulets

AOU_HM

hemitriccus obsoletus

Brown-breasted Pygmy-Tyrant

Tyrannidae,Elaeninae

Tyrannulets

Recordings

12818.wav

12818 Calls, above Ubatuba, Nucleo Sta. Virginia, 10<10>30<10>93. Cloudy, 26<91>C. Scrub, border of rainforest. With /Hylopezus nattereri, Conopophaga lineata, Saltator similis .

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