Ochre-faced Tody-Flycatcher

todirostrum plumbeiceps

Tyrannidae,Elaeninae · Tyrannulets

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

The account

Description

3.5" Eye dark. Crown grayish-black. Sides of head and cheeks buffy orange with a blackish ear spot. Olive-brown on the back, the wings darker with two buff wingbars and margins of the primaries. Below grayish-white with a white belly.

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

Where it was recorded

The discs' own checklists select Ochre-faced Tody-Flycatcher at 13 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. 1 recorded locality lies beyond the map's edge and is listed below instead.

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

More often recognized by its characteristic calls rather than by observation. The call is a low liquid 'brrrrr-brrrr-brrrrr' etc. with variations.

Behavior

Within lower growth of scrub and tangles near forest border. Forages usually below eye level by performing frequent upward strikes and calling from time to time.

Breeding

All members of the genus Todirostrum build oval-shaped nests with side entrance that are suspended at the top (¹⁰⁶).

Habitat and status

A tody-flycatcher of dense upland scrub. Reasonably common in upland forest clearings, forest borders and wet scrub, but hard to see without playback.

Distribution

In the uplands of the Serra do Mar from Santos to Rio de Janeiro, the Serra Paranapiacaba (Fazenda Intervales, PE Carlos Botelho), Serra Mantiqueira (from Campos do Jordão to Itatiaia), Serra dos Orgãos. Not below 700 meters. Reaches about 1300 meters (⁴⁴).

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, above Ubatuba, Nucleo Sta. Virginia 10/31/93. Sunny, 22°C. Scrub.
Call. Serra Bocaina, near S. Jose do Barreiro, 11/3/93. Sunny, 25°C Scrub.
Calls. PE Jacupiranga, Caverna do Diabo, 10/24/94. Sunny, 25°C. Scrub. With Procnias nudicollis, Attila phoenicurus.
Call. Fazenda Intervales, 11/10/95. Sunny, 25°C. Scrub.

Recording files on the disc

9402.wav Call, above Ubatuba, Nucleo Sta. Virginia 10/31/93. Sunny, 22°C. Scrub.
813.mp3 Call. Serra Bocaina, near S. Jose do Barreiro, 11/3/93. Sunny, 25°C Scrub.
1823.mp3 Calls. PE Jacupiranga, Caverna do Diabo, 10/24/94. Sunny, 25°C. Scrub. With Procnias nudicollis, Attila phoenicurus.
15164.wav Call. Fazenda Intervales, 11/10/95. Sunny, 25°C. Scrub.

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	todirostrum plumbeiceps	Ochre-faced Tody-Flycatcher	Tyrannidae,Elaeninae
CLEMENTS	todirostrum plumbeiceps	Ochre-faced Tody-Flycatcher	Tyrannidae,Elaeninae
AOU_HM	poecilotriccus plumbeiceps	Ochre-faced Tody-Flycatcher	Tyrannidae,Elaeninae

Source details

Identifier on this site: seb_species_0232
Account identifier: seb_account_0232
Account number on the disc: 232
Source edition: CD03 / 2006 package
Original taxonomy scheme: WORLD
Structure status: heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative