Rufous-collared Sparrow
zonotrichia capensis
Emberizidae · Emberizine Sparrows
- Disc 2 · 2001 listed
- Disc 3 · 2006 listed
- Disc 1 · 2011 listed
The account
Description
14-15 cm. Slightly crested head gray with black stripes. Rufous collar on hind neck. Upperparts brown with black streaks. Underparts white, with black patch on sides of chest.
Juvenile duller, the chest and belly with dusky stripes.
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Adult Disc 3 · 2006 -
Juvenile Disc 3 · 2006
Each plate is labelled with the disc's own caption.
Where it was recorded
The discs' own checklists select Rufous-collared Sparrow at 28 localities.
- Angra dos Reis ANRB
- Assis ASSB
- Barreiro Rico BRSB
- Boraceia BOSB
- Campos do Jordão CASB
- Fazenda Campininha FZSB
- Fazenda Intervales FASB
- Fazenda Paraiso PASB
- Ilha do Cardoso ILSB
- Ilha São Sebastião SSSB
- Itirapina ITSB
- Jureia-Peruibe JUSB position not recoverable
- Morro do Diabo MOSB outside the map
- Parati PARB
- Pariquera-Abaixo PESB
- PE Carlos Botelho PCSB
- PE Jacupiranga PJSB
- Reserva Ecológica Guapiacú RERB
- Rio de Janeiro RIRB
- Santa Barbara do Rio Pardo SNSB
- Serra Bocaina SESB
- Serra da Cantareira SRSB
- Serra dos Orgãos SRRB
- Serra dos Tucanos SDTC
- Serras de Japi e Ermida SDSB
- Sete Barras STSB
- Ubatuba UBSB
- Vassununga VASB
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 'tik' (Vocalizations # 1 and 2), song variable, long whistles repeated ' ziu zi ziu ziu ziu" and similar (vocalizations # 3 and 4).
Behavior
Forages on the ground in open country in pairs and small groups. Tame.
Habitat and status
Common in open country, suburbs, agricultural land, borders of swamps, cerrado. Avoids rain forest.
Distribution
Common throughout. Up to 2400 meters
Taxonomy notes
Common host of Molothrus bonariensis.
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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/18/98. Itatiaia, Agulhas Negras road. Hazy, little wind, 15°C. Scrub above tree limit (1800 m).
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Courtship calls. 10/27/99, Campos do Jordão, road to São Jose dos Alpes. Clear, 25°C. Open forest. With Turdus rufiventris, Cyclarhis gujanensis.
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Song, December 31, 2004. Itatiaia, Hotel Simon. open secondary forest, 25°C, some clouds.
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Song, Itirapina, November 14, 1994. Open grassland with bushes, 30°C, sunny. with Thamnophilus torquatus.
Recording files on the disc
- 11873.mp3 /18/98. Itatiaia, Agulhas Negras road. Hazy, little wind, 15°C. Scrub above tree limit (1800 m).
- 2631.mp3 Courtship calls. 10/27/99, Campos do Jordão, road to São Jose dos Alpes. Clear, 25°C. Open forest. With Turdus rufiventris, Cyclarhis gujanensis.
- 10752.mp3 Song, December 31, 2004. Itatiaia, Hotel Simon. open secondary forest, 25°C, some clouds.
- 12212.mp3 Song, Itirapina, November 14, 1994. Open grassland with bushes, 30°C, sunny. with Thamnophilus torquatus.
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 | zonotrichia capensis | Rufous-collared Sparrow | Emberizidae |
| CLEMENTS | zonotrichia capensis | Rufous-collared Sparrow | Emberizidae |
| AOU_HM | zonotrichia capensis | Rufous-collared Sparrow | Emberizidae |
Source details
- Identifier on this site
- seb_species_0447
- Account identifier
- seb_account_0447
- Account number on the disc
- 447
- Source edition
- CD03 / 2006 package
- Original taxonomy scheme
- WORLD
- Structure status
- heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative