Great Pampa-Finch

embernagra platensis

Emberizidae · Emberizine Sparrows

Disc 2 · 2001 listed
Disc 3 · 2006 listed
Disc 1 · 2011 listed

The account

Description

21-23 cm. A large finch of open country. Sexes alike. Bill distinct, light orange with a black ridge. Head gray-olive with a darker facial area. Upperparts olive-greenish, streaked blackish. Yellow-olive edges of the primaries. Underparts light gray, more buffy on the belly.

Juveniles are coarsely streaked blackish below and above.

Adult Disc 3 · 2006
Juvenile Disc 3 · 2006

Each plate is labelled with the disc's own caption.

Voice

Call 'ziup', 'zip' (vocalization # 4). Song a repetition of several notes that can change from time to time, rather weak for such a big bird, e. g., ' zip zep zizit zip zep . . . zip zep zizit zip zep...', ziu zi zitzi . . . ziu zi zitzi . . . (Vocalization # 1-3, 5-6).

Behavior

Forages low in scrub, in high grass and on the ground, sometimes at road sides.

Habitat and status

Common in its limited habitat, damp high altitude grassland with grassy areas and bushes, mostly close to brooks and other wet places.

Distribution

The higher serras of Estado São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. In Estado São Paulo found at Itararé, Itapirapua (¹¹⁹), and common at Agulhas Negras, Serra Mantiqueira. 1700-2500 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

Song. Serra da Mantiqueira, 11/18/98. Sunny, 20°C. High altitude scrub. With Myiophobus fasciatus.
Song. Serra da Mantiqueira, 11/18/98. Sunny, 20°C. High altitude scrub. With Columba plumbea, Stephanophorus diadematus.
Song. Serra da Mantiqueira, 11/18/98. Sunny, 20°C. High altitude scrub. With Troglodytes aedon.
Call. Serra da Mantiqueira, 11/18/98. Sunny, 20°C. High altitude scrub.
Song. Serra da Mantiqueira, 11/18/98. Sunny, 20°C. High altitude scrub. With Troglodytes aedon.
Song. 11/18/98 Serra da Mantiqueira Sunny, 20°C. High altitude scrub.

Recording files on the disc

2168.mp3 Song. Serra da Mantiqueira, 11/18/98. Sunny, 20°C. High altitude scrub. With Myiophobus fasciatus.
5486.mp3 Song. Serra da Mantiqueira, 11/18/98. Sunny, 20°C. High altitude scrub. With Columba plumbea, Stephanophorus diadematus.
7149.mp3 Song. Serra da Mantiqueira, 11/18/98. Sunny, 20°C. High altitude scrub. With Troglodytes aedon.
1915.mp3 Call. Serra da Mantiqueira, 11/18/98. Sunny, 20°C. High altitude scrub.
4169.mp3 Song. Serra da Mantiqueira, 11/18/98. Sunny, 20°C. High altitude scrub. With Troglodytes aedon.
11375.mp3 Song. 11/18/98 Serra da Mantiqueira Sunny, 20°C. High altitude scrub.

More images

Serra Mantiqueira, Fritz Mueller 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

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	embernagra platensis	Great Pampa-Finch	Emberizidae
CLEMENTS	embernagra platensis	Great Pampa-Finch	Emberizidae
AOU_HM	embernagra platensis	Great Pampa-Finch	Emberizidae

Source details

Identifier on this site: seb_species_0443
Account identifier: seb_account_0443
Account number on the disc: 443
Source edition: CD03 / 2006 package
Original taxonomy scheme: WORLD
Structure status: heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative