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Shiny Cowbird

molothrus bonariensis

Icteridae,Icterinae · Troupials

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

The account

  • Male Disc 3 · 2006
  • Female 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 Shiny Cowbird at 20 localities.

The disc's own area map with 18 of Shiny Cowbird's checklist localities marked Angra dos Reis Boraceia Fazenda Intervales Ilha do Cardoso Ilha São Sebastião Itirapina Marica Parati Pariquera-Abaixo PE Carlos Botelho PE Jacupiranga Reserva Ecológica Guapiacú Rio de Janeiro Santa Barbara do Rio Pardo Serra da Cantareira Serra dos Orgãos Serra dos Tucanos Ubatuba
Historical checklist localities on the disc's own area map — the red dots the original program drew, placed by its recovered projection. Not a range map: it shows the places whose checklists record the bird, nothing more. 1 recorded locality lies beyond the map's edge and is listed below instead.1 has no usable coordinate and is listed below unplotted.
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.

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

  • Calls, song. Venezuela, LNS 58137. Recorded by W. Gunn.
Recording files on the disc
  • 2958.mp3 Calls, song. Venezuela, LNS 58137. Recorded by W. Gunn.

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 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.

SchemeScientific nameEnglish nameFamily
WORLD molothrus bonariensis Shiny Cowbird Icteridae,Icterinae
CLEMENTS molothrus bonariensis Shiny Cowbird Icteridae,Icterinae
AOU_HM molothrus bonariensis Shiny Cowbird Icteridae,Icterinae
Source details
Identifier on this site
seb_species_0463
Account identifier
seb_account_0463
Account number on the disc
463
Source edition
CD03 / 2006 package
Original taxonomy scheme
WORLD
Structure status
heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative