Marsh Seedeater
sporophila palustris
Emberizidae · Emberizine Sparrows
- Disc 2 · 2001 not listed
- Disc 3 · 2006 listed
- Disc 1 · 2011 listed
The account
Description
10 cm. Male crown and back gray. Rump rufous chestnut. Wings blackish with white edgings and speculum. Throat and chest white. Belly rufous.
The female is brown above, buffy white below.
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Male Disc 3 · 2006 -
Female Disc 3 · 2006
Each plate is labelled with the disc's own caption.
The account, continued
Voice
Call a descending 'ziee'.
Behavior
Forages in high grass.
Habitat and status
Migrant in October/November (119). Wet meadows, tall grass marshes.
Distribution
Extralimital. To be expected to show up as a migrant in October/November. To 1100 meters
Taxonomy notes
Possibly only a color phase of Sporophila ruficollis (133). Deserves endangered status (133).
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, November 23, 2002, Santo Thome, Corrientes, Argentina, open wet meadow and marsh land, 220C, sunny, very windy.
Recording files on the disc
- 7131.mp3 Calls, November 23, 2002, Santo Thome, Corrientes, Argentina, open wet meadow and marsh land, 220C, sunny, very windy.
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 palustris | Marsh Seedeater | Emberizidae |
| CLEMENTS | sporophila palustris | Marsh Seedeater | Emberizidae |
| AOU_HM | sporophila palustris | Marsh Seedeater | Emberizidae |
Source details
- Identifier on this site
- seb_species_0431
- Account identifier
- seb_account_0431
- Account number on the disc
- 431
- Source edition
- CD03 / 2006 package
- Original taxonomy scheme
- WORLD
- Structure status
- heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative