Red-crowned Ant-Tanager
habia rubica
Thraupidae · Tanagers, Honeycreepers
- Disc 2 · 2001 listed
- Disc 3 · 2006 listed
- Disc 1 · 2011 listed
The account
Description
18-19 cm. Male is brown-red above, brighter red below. Flanks gray. Scarlet crown patch bordered on the sides by a black line.
The female is olive-brown with a yellow crown patch. Buffy or light ochraceous below.
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Male Disc 3 · 2006 -
Female Disc 3 · 2006
Each plate is labelled with the disc's own caption.
Where it was recorded
The discs' own checklists select Red-crowned Ant-Tanager at 23 localities.
- Angra dos Reis ANRB
- Barreiro Rico BRSB
- Boraceia BOSB
- Fazenda Intervales FASB
- Fazenda Paraiso PASB
- Ilha do Cardoso ILSB
- Ilha São Sebastião SSSB
- Jureia-Peruibe JUSB position not recoverable
- Lencois LESB
- Morro do Diabo MOSB outside the map
- Nucleo Sta. Virginia NUSP
- Parati PARB
- Pariquera-Abaixo PESB
- PE Carlos Botelho PCSB
- PE Jacupiranga PJSB
- Reserva Ecológica Guapiacú RERB
- Rio de Janeiro RIRB
- Serra da Cantareira SRSB
- Serra dos Orgãos SRRB
- Serra dos Tucanos SDTC
- Sete Barras STSB
- Ubatuba UBSB
- Vassununga VASB
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
A variety of diverse calls and songs. Dawn song a repeated 'peek peer peek peer' (vocalization # 2), a sequence of whistles 'pi pu pi p i pi.' (vocalization # 3 and 6) seems to be the day song. Call a series of 'chekchekchekchek....' (vocalization # 1, etc.) and 'chek chek dji dji dhji (vocalization #4)
Behavior
Forages using upward hops and flutters close to the ground not higher than about 10 meters up. Is encountered in pairs and small family groups, sometimes in mixed species flocks. Follows driver ant swarms. Avoids forest edge.
Breeding
Rio de Janeiro September, November, December; nest cup shaped (159).
Habitat and status
Common in dense undergrowth of primary and secondary forest and dense restinga.
Distribution
Throughout, up to 900 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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Calls. Fazenda Intervales, 11/30/97. Sunny, 27°C. Primary forest.
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Dawn song. Fazenda Intervales, 11/30/97. Sunny, 27°C. Primary forest. With Pyriglena leucoptera, Grallaria varia, Chamaeza meruloides, Cacicus haemorhous.
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Day song and calls, Jureia-Peruibe, 10/14/99. Sunny, 25°C. Secondary forest.
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Calls. 10/24/99, Serra da Mantiqueira, entrance to the park. Clear, 27°C. Secondary forest.
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Calls, 1. PE Jacupiranga State Forest, São Paulo, November 7, 1995, sunny, 25°C, 2. Fazenda Intervales, November 30, 1997, sunny, 30°C, and 3. Ubatuba, São Paulo, sunny, 30°C, secondary forest.
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Day song, Fazenda Intervales, November 7, 1995, sunny, 25°C, primary forest.
Recording files on the disc
- 6456.mp3 Calls. Fazenda Intervales, 11/30/97. Sunny, 27°C. Primary forest.
- 11946.mp3 Dawn song. Fazenda Intervales, 11/30/97. Sunny, 27°C. Primary forest. With Pyriglena leucoptera, Grallaria varia, Chamaeza meruloides, Cacicus haemorhous.
- 9455.mp3 Day song and calls, Jureia-Peruibe, 10/14/99. Sunny, 25°C. Secondary forest.
- 14923.mp3 Calls. 10/24/99, Serra da Mantiqueira, entrance to the park. Clear, 27°C. Secondary forest.
- 9306.mp3 Calls, 1. PE Jacupiranga State Forest, São Paulo, November 7, 1995, sunny, 25°C, 2. Fazenda Intervales, November 30, 1997, sunny, 30°C, and 3. Ubatuba, São Paulo, sunny, 30°C, secondary forest.
- 4331.mp3 Day song, Fazenda Intervales, November 7, 1995, sunny, 25°C, primary forest.
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 | habia rubica | Red-crowned Ant-Tanager | Thraupidae |
| CLEMENTS | habia rubica | Red-crowned Ant-Tanager | Thraupidae |
| AOU_HM | habia rubica | Red-crowned Ant-Tanager | Thraupidae |
Open questions about this bird
Recovered evidence that has not been settled. It is published because leaving it out would misrepresent what the discs contain.
Later listening, kept separate from the disc's own claims
content_mc2 — review_identification: red crowned Ant tanager (human_review; definite)
Listening observation HRO_0017 Sources disagree
What was heard: Startup bird identified as Habia rubica.
Relationship to the disc's evidence: no_historical_label
Identification certainty: definite · transcription certainty: not_applicable · owner_family_clarification
Listening observation HRO_SCAN_0023
What was heard: Red-crowned Ant-Tanager singing
Relationship to the disc's evidence: agrees
Identification certainty: definite · transcription certainty: probable · handwritten_original
Source details
- Identifier on this site
- seb_species_0387
- Account identifier
- seb_account_0387
- Account number on the disc
- 387
- Source edition
- CD03 / 2006 package
- Original taxonomy scheme
- WORLD
- Structure status
- heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative