Bay-winged Cowbird
molothrus badius
Icteridae,Icterinae · Troupials
- Disc 2 · 2001 not listed
- Disc 3 · 2006 listed
- Disc 1 · 2011 listed
The account
Description
18-19 cm. Light ashy brown, with a dusky mask. Wings rusty brown. Tail black.
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The disc records this picture against the bird without a caption. Disc 3 · 2006
The account, continued
Voice
Call 'zak', 'ziu', zi' , 'pie' and similar notes (vocalization # 1).
Behavior
Forages on the ground in semiopen country. Perches on bushes and in trees. In small flocks of up to 25 birds.
Breeding
Not parasitic, building its own nest or appropriating nests of other species.
Habitat and status
Extralimital, in semiopen and lightly wooded areas, swamps, fields.
Distribution
Inland Estado São Paulo. Can be expected to show up as a straggler. To 2500 meters (133)
Taxonomy notes
The rusty wings seem to indicate a mimicry of furnariids.
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, December 27, 1993. Inquisivi, La Paz, Bolivia. Recorded by Sjoerd Mayer.
Recording files on the disc
- 2672.mp3 Calls, December 27, 1993. Inquisivi, La Paz, Bolivia. 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 | molothrus badius | Bay-winged Cowbird | Icteridae,Icterinae |
| CLEMENTS | molothrus badius | Bay-winged Cowbird | Icteridae,Icterinae |
| AOU_HM | agelaioides badius | Bay-winged Cowbird | Icteridae,Icterinae |
Source details
- Identifier on this site
- seb_species_0461
- Account identifier
- seb_account_0461
- Account number on the disc
- 461
- Source edition
- CD03 / 2006 package
- Original taxonomy scheme
- WORLD
- Structure status
- heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative