Kaempfer's Tody-Tyrant

hemitriccus kaempferi

Tyrannidae,Elaeninae · Tyrannulets

Disc 2 · 2001 not listed
Disc 3 · 2006 listed
Disc 1 · 2011 listed

The account

Description

10 cm. Neck and upper head greenish with a brownish tone; mantle olive green; Wings black with broad pale yellow edgings on tertials and two narrow buffy olive wing bars; orbital area and cheeks buffy yellow with an ochraceous touch on throat and breast; breast indistinctly striped dark; belly clear yellow white. Distinctive is the tail which has distally broadened club-like outer feathers slightly longer than the rest of the tail feathers with whitish rims (see Fig. 2 in ¹³⁷).

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

Voice

Call is a sequence of 12-14 loud zik sounds: 'zik zik zik zik zik zik zik zik zik zik zik zik zik zik' . These sequences are given every 2 to 3 minutes.

Behavior

Moves around 0.5-2 meters above ground in dense forest. Forages by sally-gleaning.

Habitat and status

Unknown from Estado São Paulo; in Parana and Santa Catarina rain forest and coastal scrubby forest.

Distribution

To 150 meters (¹³⁷). Location known to be closest to our area is near Guaratuba, Parana. To be looked for in Southeastern Estado São Paulo e.g., Cananeia, Itapirangui, Ariri, in forest.

Taxonomy notes

Rhynchocyclus olivaceus is recorded from Estado Rio de Janeiro near Registro do Sai (⁴⁰). I am not aware of recent observations and have therefore not included this species here. For more information see ¹⁷⁸

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

Calls, RPPN Volta Velha, Santa Catarina, December 1, 2002, low forest, 30°C, sunny. With Schiffornis virescens, Vireo olivaceus.
Calls, RPPN Volta Velha, Santa Catarina, December 1, 2002, low forest, 30°C, sunny. With Schiffornis virescens, Basileuterus rivularis.

Recording files on the disc

6923.mp3 Calls, RPPN Volta Velha, Santa Catarina, December 1, 2002, low forest, 30°C, sunny. With Schiffornis virescens, Vireo olivaceus.
12265.mp3 Calls, RPPN Volta Velha, Santa Catarina, December 1, 2002, low forest, 30°C, sunny. With Schiffornis virescens, Basileuterus rivularis.

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 — not 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 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	hemitriccus kaempferi	Kaempfer's Tody-Tyrant	Tyrannidae,Elaeninae
CLEMENTS	hemitriccus kaempferi	Kaempfer's Tody-Tyrant	Tyrannidae,Elaeninae
AOU_HM	hemitriccus kaempferi	Kaempfer's Tody-Tyrant	Tyrannidae,Elaeninae

Source details

Identifier on this site: seb_species_0230
Account identifier: seb_account_0230
Account number on the disc: 230
Source edition: CD03 / 2006 package
Original taxonomy scheme: WORLD
Structure status: heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative