Golden-winged Cacique
cacicus chrysopterus
Icteridae,Icterinae · Troupials
- Disc 2 · 2001 listed
- Disc 3 · 2006 listed
- Disc 1 · 2011 listed
The account
Description
Male 20.5 cm. Female 18 cm. Black overall. Yellow wing coverts and rump. Iris bluish or yellowish white. Bill pale horn colored.
In young birds the iris is dark brown.
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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 Golden-winged Cacique at 13 localities.
- Boraceia BOSB
- Campos do Jordão CASB
- Fazenda Intervales FASB
- Ilha do Cardoso ILSB
- Jureia-Peruibe JUSB position not recoverable
- Nucleo Sta. Virginia NUSP
- Parati PARB
- PE Carlos Botelho PCSB
- PE Jacupiranga PJSB
- Serra Bocaina SESB
- Serra da Cantareira SRSB
- Sete Barras STSB
- Ubatuba UBSB
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
Has many different calls. Sings antiphonal duets, turns itself upside down on a branch when displaying. Song two low pitched introductory notes, next a buzz or a doubled 'whik' and finally a loud whistled 'whoop wheeeo' (63}, a repeated sequence of 5-7 whistles (vocalizations 2 and 6) . Call a nasal repeated 'weii', a loud 'jaik jaik...'.
Behavior
In pairs or small family groups, or in mixed groups, forages in fruit trees and investigates epiphytes.
Habitat and status
Not uncommon in the canopy of humid mountain forest with epiphyte-laden trees
Distribution
The serras of Estado Rio de Janeiro and Estado São Paulo. In Estado São Paulo found at Campos do Jordão, Itatiaia, Serra Bocaina. Also reported from Sete Barras, Boraceia, Nucleo Sta. Virginia, PE Carlos Botelho, Alto do Ribeira, Fazenda Intervales, PE Jacupiranga, Iporanga (119), São Miguel de Arcanjo, Itararé (40). 800-2000 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
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Calls. Fazenda Intervales, 11/30/97. Sunny, 27°C. Secondary forest.
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Calls, song. Serra da Mantiqueira, 11/18/98. Sunny, 20°C. Cloud forest. With Tijuca atra, Basileuterus leucoblepharus, Turdus rufiventris, Poospiza lateralis, Chamaeza ruficauda.
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Call. 10/18/99, Serra da Mantiqueira, above Hotel Do Ype, (above 1600 meters). Clouds, foggy, showers, 23°C. Primary forest with plenty of bamboo. With Vireo olivaceus.
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Calls. 10/19/99, Serra Mantiquera, Itatiaia NP. Cloudy, some rain, 22°C. Montane primary forest. With Sirystes sibilator.
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Calls. 10/20/99, Serra da Mantiqueira, Agulhas Negras road. Clear, 20°C. High altitude forest, 2200 meters. With Stephanophorus diadematus, Camptostoma obsoletum.
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Calls. 10/27/99, Campos do Jordão, road to São Jose dos Alpes. Some clouds, 25 °C. Open forest. With Sittasomus griseicapillus.
Recording files on the disc
- 8217.mp3 Calls. Fazenda Intervales, 11/30/97. Sunny, 27°C. Secondary forest.
- 7772.mp3 Calls, song. Serra da Mantiqueira, 11/18/98. Sunny, 20°C. Cloud forest. With Tijuca atra, Basileuterus leucoblepharus, Turdus rufiventris, Poospiza lateralis, Chamaeza ruficauda.
- 5293.mp3 Call. 10/18/99, Serra da Mantiqueira, above Hotel Do Ype, (above 1600 meters). Clouds, foggy, showers, 23°C. Primary forest with plenty of bamboo. With Vireo olivaceus.
- 1526.mp3 Calls. 10/19/99, Serra Mantiquera, Itatiaia NP. Cloudy, some rain, 22°C. Montane primary forest. With Sirystes sibilator.
- 7593.mp3 Calls. 10/20/99, Serra da Mantiqueira, Agulhas Negras road. Clear, 20°C. High altitude forest, 2200 meters. With Stephanophorus diadematus, Camptostoma obsoletum.
- 14329.mp3 Calls. 10/27/99, Campos do Jordão, road to São Jose dos Alpes. Some clouds, 25 °C. Open forest. With Sittasomus griseicapillus.
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 | cacicus chrysopterus | Golden-winged Cacique | Icteridae,Icterinae |
| CLEMENTS | cacicus chrysopterus | Golden-winged Cacique | Icteridae,Icterinae |
| AOU_HM | cacicus chrysopterus | Golden-winged Cacique | Icteridae,Icterinae |
Source details
- Identifier on this site
- seb_species_0467
- Account identifier
- seb_account_0467
- Account number on the disc
- 467
- Source edition
- CD03 / 2006 package
- Original taxonomy scheme
- WORLD
- Structure status
- heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative