Ochre-breasted Pipit
anthus nattereri
Motacillidae · Pipits
- Disc 2 · 2001 listed
- Disc 3 · 2006 listed
- Disc 1 · 2011 listed
The account
Description
13.5 cm. A rare pipit. Streaked blackish and ochraceous on the back. Tail blackish with white outer tail feathers. Throat white. Chest yellow orange with quite heavy streaking. Belly buff-whitish.
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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 Ochre-breasted Pipit at 1 locality.
- Itirapina ITSB
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
The song, a sequence of different repeated staccato notes which is itself repeated again and again while the bird hovers in big circles up to 100 feet high in the air, ends with a 'eeeeeeuuu', when the bird slowly descends sailing to the ground.
Behavior
Forages walking on the ground in pairs or small groups.
Breeding
Breeds in Southeast Brazil (119). Singing individuals observed near Itirapina in October and November. Probably September-January.
Habitat and status
Rare and local, according to Edwin Willis almost extinct in Estado Sao Paulo due to use of introduced grass species and overgrazing. Prefers 'campo natural', where the amount of lifestock is reduced or before the yearly burning. Apparently likes areas close to water, where it hunts for insects on the ground (119). May appear closer to the coast, when conditions are favorable, but usually not in costal areas.
Distribution
Found near Itirapina in 1999. Extralimital regularly encountered in the Serra da Canastra. Old recordings from Estado São Paulo are from Ipiranga (which is now within the city limit of São Paulo), Itararé and Itapetininga (40); to 1500 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
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Song. Itirapina, 11/14/95. Song. Sunny, some clouds, 25 °C. Wet meadows close to a brook
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Song. Serra da Canastra, 11/11/98. Sunny, 25°C. Campo, relatively high grassy plains. With Rhynchotus rufescens.
Recording files on the disc
- 8400.mp3 Song. Itirapina, 11/14/95. Song. Sunny, some clouds, 25 °C. Wet meadows close to a brook
- 3947.mp3 Song. Serra da Canastra, 11/11/98. Sunny, 25°C. Campo, relatively high grassy plains. With Rhynchotus rufescens.
More images
Itirapina, São Paulo, photograph by Richard Cech, NY., USA. 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 edited this account; the sections listed below differ from the Disc 3 release text.
Sections with genuine 2011 edits (vs the Disc 3 release): habitat_status; distribution.
Description Disc 1 · 2011
13.5 cm. A rare pipit. Streaked blackish and ochraceous on the back. Tail blackish with white outer tail feathers. Throat white. Chest yellow orange with quite heavy streaking. Belly buff-whitish.
Voice Disc 1 · 2011
The song, a sequence of different repeated staccato notes which is itself repeated again and again while the bird hovers in big circles up to 100 feet high in the air, ends with a 'eeeeeeuuu', when the bird slowly descends sailing to the ground.
Behavior Disc 1 · 2011
Forages walking on the ground in pairs or small groups.
Breeding Disc 1 · 2011
Breeds in Southeast Brazil (119). Singing individuals observed near Itirapina in October and November. Probably September-January.
Habitat and status Disc 1 · 2011
Rare and local, according to Edwin Willis almost extinct in Estado São Paulo due to use of introduced grass species and overgrazing. Prefers 'campo natural', where the amount of lifestock is reduced or before the yearly burning. Apparently likes areas close to water, where it hunts for insects on the ground (119). May appear closer to the coast, when conditions are favorable, but usually not in costal areas.
Distribution Disc 1 · 2011
Found near Itirapina in 1999. Extralimital regularly encountered in the Serra da Canastra. Old recordings from Estado São Paulo are from Ipiranga (which is now within the city limit of São Paulo), Itararé and Itapetininga (40); to 1500 meters
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 nattereri | Ochre-breasted Pipit | Motacillidae |
| CLEMENTS | anthus nattereri | Ochre-breasted Pipit | Motacillidae |
| AOU_HM | anthus nattereri | Ochre-breasted Pipit | Motacillidae |
Source details
- Identifier on this site
- seb_species_0315
- Account identifier
- seb_account_0315
- Account number on the disc
- 315
- Source edition
- CD03 / 2006 package
- Original taxonomy scheme
- WORLD
- Structure status
- heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative