Cliff Flycatcher
hirundinea ferruginea
Tyrannidae,Fluvicolinae · Fluvicoline Flycatchers
- Disc 2 · 2001 listed
- Disc 3 · 2006 listed
- Disc 1 · 2011 listed
The account
Description
17 cm. Slender with long wings and tail. White eye ring. Reddish-brown above with a cinnamon rufous rump and upper part of tail. Wings black, the feathers with rusty edges, the basal part of the tertiaries cinnamon rufous forming a patch. Throat buff whitish with darker vermiculation. Below rufous.
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The disc records this picture against the bird without a caption. Disc 3 · 2006
Where it was recorded
The discs' own checklists select Cliff Flycatcher at 14 localities.
- Angra dos Reis ANRB
- Boraceia BOSB
- Campos do Jordão CASB
- Fazenda Intervales FASB
- Ilha São Sebastião SSSB
- Jureia-Peruibe JUSB position not recoverable
- Parati PARB
- PE Carlos Botelho PCSB
- PE Jacupiranga PJSB
- Reserva Ecológica Guapiacú RERB
- Rio de Janeiro RIRB
- Serra dos Orgãos SRRB
- Serra dos Tucanos SDTC
- Ubatuba UBSB
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.
The account, continued
Voice
Not very vocal, the call is 'wee-dirrrrrr'.
Behavior
Perches on top of cliffs, on gables of houses, performs almost exclusively aerial hawks (74).
Breeding
Nest is an open cup (106)
Habitat and status
Regularly encountered near cliffs and road cuts, rocky canyons and rocky outcroppings.
Distribution
Throughout, below 2000 meters. Rio de Janeiro State (reported from Cantagalo, Nova Friburgo, Teresopolis, Taipu, Ilha Grande, Marambaia, Itatiaia), São Paulo State (reported from São Sebastião, Iguape and further inland, [40]).
Taxonomy notes
The form occuring in Southeast Brazil (bellicosa) is morphologically distinct from the other subspecies and might be a separate species.
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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Calls. Cornell Cat#30185. Itatiaia National Park, Rio de Janeiro, 11/12/82. With Saltator similis. Recording by T. A. Parker, III.
Recording files on the disc
- 8175.wav Calls. Cornell Cat#30185. Itatiaia National Park, Rio de Janeiro, 11/12/82. With Saltator similis. Recording by T. A. Parker, III.
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 | hirundinea ferruginea | Cliff Flycatcher | Tyrannidae,Fluvicolinae |
| CLEMENTS | hirundinea ferruginea | Cliff Flycatcher | Tyrannidae,Fluvicolinae |
| AOU_HM | hirundinea ferruginea | Cliff Flycatcher | Tyrannidae,Fluvicolinae |
Source details
- Identifier on this site
- seb_species_0246
- Account identifier
- seb_account_0246
- Account number on the disc
- 246
- Source edition
- CD03 / 2006 package
- Original taxonomy scheme
- WORLD
- Structure status
- heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative