Azure-shouldered Tanager
thraupis cyanoptera
Thraupidae · Tanagers, Honeycreepers
- Disc 2 · 2001 listed
- Disc 3 · 2006 listed
- Disc 1 · 2011 listed
The account
Description
18 cm. Larger than Thraupis sayaca with a heavier bill. Back grayish blue. Wing and edging of flight feathers and rims of tail feathers deep violet blue. Underside whitish blue with a greenish tinge on the sides of the body. Belly and crissum buff white-yellow.
Subadults different from Thraupis sayaca by signs of violet blue on shoulders and buffier underparts (159).
The best way to identify this species is the combination of the thick bill and dark lores which are absent in other blue Thraupis species (160).
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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 Azure-shouldered Tanager at 15 localities.
- Boraceia BOSB
- Fazenda Intervales FASB
- Ilha do Cardoso ILSB
- Ilha São Sebastião SSSB
- Jureia-Peruibe JUSB position not recoverable
- Nucleo Sta. Virginia NUSP
- Parati PARB
- PE Carlos Botelho PCSB
- PE Jacupiranga PJSB
- Reserva Ecológica Guapiacú RERB
- Rio de Janeiro RIRB
- Serra Bocaina SESB
- Serra dos Orgãos SRRB
- Serra dos Tucanos SDTC
- Sete Barras STSB
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
Call similar to other Thraupis tanagers, a high 'seee". Song a beautiful melodical warble circumscribed as 'look here, right here, drink-drink jrrr" , 8-10 sec, repeated several times (159). The 'here' is a long whistle. Variations of the song are heard on vocalizations #1-5.
Behavior
Forages for fruit high up in the canopy of tall trees, also in the canopy of smaller trees of secondary growth. Does not follow mixed species flocks.
Breeding
October Espiritu Santo (159).
Habitat and status
Not uncommon in humid forests, restinga and forest edge. Its presence is most frequently revealed by its song;
Distribution
Throughout the humid forests of the littoral. Goes up the escarpments as far as PE Carlos Botelho, PE Jacupiranga (119), Boraceia (Remold, unpubl.). To 950 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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Two songs, Boraceia, São Paulo, November 13, 1993, sunny, 27°C, open area within forest.
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Song, Fazenda Capricornio, November 20, 1998, cloudy, 30°C, open forest.
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Song, Ilha do Cardoso, São Paulo, November 24, 1997, some clouds, 25°C, brushy forest.
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Song, Ilha do Cardoso, São Paulo, November 24, 1998, some clouds, 25°C, brushy forest.
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Song, Ubatuba, São Paulo, November 18, 1998, sunny, 28°C, with Saltator fuliginosus, Merulaxis ater.
Recording files on the disc
- 4007.mp3 Two songs, Boraceia, São Paulo, November 13, 1993, sunny, 27°C, open area within forest.
- 2178.mp3 Song, Fazenda Capricornio, November 20, 1998, cloudy, 30°C, open forest.
- 7891.mp3 Song, Ilha do Cardoso, São Paulo, November 24, 1997, some clouds, 25°C, brushy forest.
- 1556.mp3 Song, Ilha do Cardoso, São Paulo, November 24, 1998, some clouds, 25°C, brushy forest.
- 745.mp3 Song, Ubatuba, São Paulo, November 18, 1998, sunny, 28°C, with Saltator fuliginosus, Merulaxis ater.
More images
Sonogram of first song in vocalization # 1, two almost identical phrases are shown in sequence. 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
In the 2011 Disc 1 revision, part of this account was truncated at exactly 512 bytes (a 2011 mastering defect). The earlier releases preserve the complete text.
Truncated sections in the 2011 revision: description. The complete earlier text is shown beneath each truncated section.
Description Disc 1 · 2011
18 cm. Larger than Thraupis sayaca with a heavier bill. Back grayish blue. Wing and edging of flight feathers and rims of tail feathers deep violet blue. Underside whitish blue with a greenish tinge on the sides of the body. Belly and crissum buff white-yellow.
Subadults different from Thraupis sayaca by signs of violet blue on shoulders and buffier underparts (159).
The best way to identify this species is the combination of the thick bill and dark lores which are absent in other blue Thraupis s
Disc 1 (2011) text ends here — truncated at exactly 512 bytes in the 2011 mastering (historical defect, kept as recovered).
Complete earlier text — Disc 3 · 2006 (14 bytes lost in 2011)
18 cm. Larger than Thraupis sayaca with a heavier bill. Back grayish blue. Wing and edging of flight feathers and rims of tail feathers deep violet blue. Underside whitish blue with a greenish tinge on the sides of the body. Belly and crissum buff white-yellow.
Subadults different from Thraupis sayaca by signs of violet blue on shoulders and buffier underparts (159).
The best way to identify this species is the combination of the thick bill and dark lores which are absent in other blue Thraupis species (160).
Shown for comparison from the Disc 3 · 2006; it does not repair or replace the Disc 1 · 2011 historical text above.
Voice Disc 1 · 2011
Call similar to other Thraupis tanagers, a high 'seee". Song a beautiful melodical warble circumscribed as 'look here, right here, drink-drink jrrr" , 8-10 sec, repeated several times (159). The 'here' is a long whistle. Variations of the song are heard on vocalizations #1-5.
Behavior Disc 1 · 2011
Forages for fruit high up in the canopy of tall trees, also in the canopy of smaller trees of secondary growth. Does not follow mixed species flocks.
Breeding Disc 1 · 2011
October Espiritu Santo (159).
Habitat and status Disc 1 · 2011
Not uncommon in humid forests, restinga and forest edge. Its presence is most frequently revealed by its song;
Distribution Disc 1 · 2011
Throughout the humid forests of the littoral. Goes up the escarpments as far as PE Carlos Botelho, PE Jacupiranga (119), Boraceia (Remold, unpubl.). To 950 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 | thraupis cyanoptera | Azure-shouldered Tanager | Thraupidae |
| CLEMENTS | thraupis cyanoptera | Azure-shouldered Tanager | Thraupidae |
| AOU_HM | thraupis cyanoptera | Azure-shouldered 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.
Review notes
review_0002
Recovered review record — open: Merged adjacent 5+3 fragments into Azure-shouldered Tanager.
Evidence: The first fragment lacks terminal media; the second consists of the same taxon's remaining distribution/media fields. · Recommended: Confirm visually against the original program or field notes when available; retain correction unless contradicted.
Review v1.1 decision — accepted_provisionally
Reviewer: ChatGPT structural audit
Notes: The correction is strongly supported by account grammar, checklist order, species-name evidence, and media-segment placement. Retain in the working dataset; optional confirmation against the original program or field notes remains.
Source details
- Identifier on this site
- seb_species_0392
- Account identifier
- seb_account_0392
- Account number on the disc
- 392
- Source edition
- CD03 / 2006 package
- Original taxonomy scheme
- WORLD
- Species boundary note
- Recovered by merging malformed 5+3 fragments.
- Account boundary note
- Recovered by merging malformed 5+3 fragments.
- Structure status
- heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative