Dark-throated Seedeater
sporophila ruficollis
Emberizidae · Emberizine Sparrows
- Disc 2 · 2001 not listed
- Disc 3 · 2006 listed
- Disc 1 · 2011 listed
The account
Description
11 cm. Male crown and back gray. Rump rufous. Throat and chest black or dark brown. The rest of underparts cinnamon rufous. Tail and wings dull brownish-black with a white speculum.
The female is brownish above, below lighter.
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Male Disc 3 · 2006
The account, continued
Voice
Call 'zii', 'ziu', 'ziiiiii'.
Behavior
Forages in tall grass and shrubs.
Habitat and status
Rare in tall grass areas with dispersed shrubs, marshy areas.
Distribution
A migrant to Estado São Paulo. Found at Ipiranga (40). To 1200 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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Call and song, Samaipata, Bolivia, December 27, 1992. Recorded by Sjoerd Mayer.
Recording files on the disc
- 3023.mp3 Call and song, Samaipata, Bolivia, December 27, 1992. Recorded by Sjoerd Mayer.
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 — not 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 3 · 2006
aux_nonzero- Disc 1 · 2011
aux_nonzero
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 | sporophila ruficollis | Dark-throated Seedeater | Emberizidae |
| CLEMENTS | sporophila ruficollis | Dark-throated Seedeater | Emberizidae |
| AOU_HM | sporophila ruficollis | Dark-throated Seedeater | Emberizidae |
Source details
- Identifier on this site
- seb_species_0430
- Account identifier
- seb_account_0430
- Account number on the disc
- 430
- Source edition
- CD03 / 2006 package
- Original taxonomy scheme
- WORLD
- Structure status
- heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative