Hellmayr's Pipit

anthus hellmayri

Motacillidae · Pipits

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

The account

Description

14.5 cm. A big pipit streaked blackish above on a beige brown background. Grayish tail with white outer tail feathers. Below whitish. Throat buff-whitish, unstriped. A band of fine, scant black streaking on buff background across the breast. In worn plumage is more grayish and the outer tail feathers are browner (¹³³). Legs pink.

Anthus correndera is much bolder streaked on the back.

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

Where it was recorded

The discs' own checklists select Hellmayr's Pipit at 2 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.

Campos do Jordão CASB
Serra dos Orgãos SRRB

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

Song (vocalization # 3) a repetition of simple single syllables : 'zilip - zilip -zilip..' or ziu -zilip-zi-zilip...' The song is mostly delivered from a perch, but also in flight.

Behavior

Forages for insects on the ground.

Breeding

Breeds in Southeast Brazil. We found a pair feeding pulli at a nest under a clump of grass in the Serra Mantiqueira at 1700 meters on November 17th, 1998. November-January.

Habitat and status

Rare in Estado São Paulo in the mountains above the tree line in pastures and on dry grassy and rocky slopes.

Distribution

Regularly seen and heard on the mountain tops close to Campos do Jordão (e.g. on the road to São Jose dos Alpes) and in the high country of the Serra Mantiqueira. Up to 2200 meters

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. 10/27/99, Campos do Jordão, road to São Jose dos Alpes. Some clouds, 25 °C. Short grass areas on top of escarpment. With Basileuterus leucoblepharus.
Song?, call. 10/27/99, Campos do Jordão, road to São Jose dos Alpes. Some clouds, 25 °C. Short grass areas on top of escarpment.
Calls. 10/27/99, Campos do Jordão, road to São Jose dos Alpes. Some clouds, 25 °C. Short grass areas on top of escarpment.
Song in flight, Aparados da Serra, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, December 27, 1990. Recorded by David Willis, UK.

Recording files on the disc

11337.mp3 Call. 10/27/99, Campos do Jordão, road to São Jose dos Alpes. Some clouds, 25 °C. Short grass areas on top of escarpment. With Basileuterus leucoblepharus.
7350.mp3 Song?, call. 10/27/99, Campos do Jordão, road to São Jose dos Alpes. Some clouds, 25 °C. Short grass areas on top of escarpment.
5381.mp3 Calls. 10/27/99, Campos do Jordão, road to São Jose dos Alpes. Some clouds, 25 °C. Short grass areas on top of escarpment.
4094.mp3 Song in flight, Aparados da Serra, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, December 27, 1990. Recorded by David Willis, UK.

More images

Biotope. Campos de Jordão, Estado São Paulo. Photo by Fritz Mueller Disc 3 · 2006
Campos do Jordão. Campo on top of the ridge. Biome of Anthus hellmayri. Disc 3 · 2006
Campos do Jordão. Campo on top of the ridge, biome of Anthus hellmayri. Disc 3 · 2006

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	anthus hellmayri	Hellmayr's Pipit	Motacillidae
CLEMENTS	anthus hellmayri	Hellmayr's Pipit	Motacillidae
AOU_HM	anthus hellmayri	Hellmayr's Pipit	Motacillidae

Source details

Identifier on this site: seb_species_0313
Account identifier: seb_account_0313
Account number on the disc: 313
Source edition: CD03 / 2006 package
Original taxonomy scheme: WORLD
Structure status: heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative