Turquoise Tanager
tangara mexicana
Thraupidae · Tanagers, Honeycreepers
- Disc 2 · 2001 listed
- Disc 3 · 2006 listed
- Disc 1 · 2011 listed
The account
Description
14 cm. Black above with a cobalt blue forecrown, shoulders, face, and rump. Black ring around the base of the bill. Underside cobalt blue, the black bases of breast feathers giving a scaled appearance of the chest; center of breast, belly and undertail covers yellow.
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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 Turquoise Tanager at 2 localities.
- Marica MRRB
- Serra dos Tucanos SDTC
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 a repeated high pitched 'stri', "tsick" (159).
Behavior
Forages at all levels in trees in groups of 3-7 individuals.
Breeding
Para November (159).
Habitat and status
Uncommon in open forest and secondary woodland, parks and tall second growth.
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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Reserva Biologica de Sooretama, ES, LNS 113298, recorded by C. Marantz, once repeated.
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Calls, Mato Grosso, Brazil, LNS88646, recorded by C. Marantz.
Recording files on the disc
- 5406.mp3 Reserva Biologica de Sooretama, ES, LNS 113298, recorded by C. Marantz, once repeated.
- 9547.mp3 Calls, Mato Grosso, Brazil, LNS88646, recorded by C. Marantz.
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- 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 |
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| WORLD | tangara mexicana | Turquoise Tanager | Thraupidae |
| CLEMENTS | tangara mexicana | Turquoise Tanager | Thraupidae |
| AOU_HM | tangara mexicana | Turquoise Tanager | Thraupidae |
Source details
- Identifier on this site
- seb_species_0397
- Account identifier
- seb_account_0397
- Account number on the disc
- 397
- Source edition
- CD03 / 2006 package
- Original taxonomy scheme
- WORLD
- Structure status
- heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative