Chopi Blackbird
gnorimopsar chopi
Icteridae,Icterinae · Troupials
- Disc 2 · 2001 listed
- Disc 3 · 2006 listed
- Disc 1 · 2011 listed
The account
Description
23-24 cm. Glossy black. A typical oblong and crooked bill shape with a diagonal groove that is sometimes visible in the field.
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The disc records this picture against the bird without a caption. Disc 3 · 2006
Where it was recorded
The discs' own checklists select Chopi Blackbird at 14 localities.
- Assis ASSB
- Fazenda Intervales FASB
- Fazenda Paraiso PASB
- Ilha São Sebastião SSSB
- Itirapina ITSB
- Morro do Diabo MOSB outside the map
- Nucleo Sta. Virginia NUSP
- Parati PARB
- PE Carlos Botelho PCSB
- Reserva Ecológica Guapiacú RERB
- Rio de Janeiro RIRB
- Santa Barbara do Rio Pardo SNSB
- Serra da Cantareira SRSB
- Serra dos Tucanos SDTC
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
Loud musical whistles 'peer peer', 'djet' glu'. Song a sequence of whistled and rolled notes.: 'piu peer piu pipipipirrrr djet djet' (vocalization #1).
Behavior
Forages in open country on the ground in small or large flocks and perches in trees.
Habitat and status
Locally common, but rare close to the coast; disappearing in some areas due to the bird trade. Open agricultural areas, savannahs, borders of swamps.
Distribution
Throughout. In Estado São Paulo reported from São Jose do Barreiro, Bananal, Campos do Jordão, Apiai, Itararé, Itapirapua, Itapetininga, Iguape, and many locations further inland (119).
Old data are from São Sebastiao, Botucatu, Ipiranga, São Miguel de Arcanjo, Rio Mogi Guacu (40). Up to 1000 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, song, August 15, 1997. Pantanal, sunny, 30°C, with Pitangus sulphuratus, Furnarius rufus.
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Calls, Pantanal, August 16, 1997
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Calls, Pantanal, August 16, 1997
Recording files on the disc
- Gnpschp1.mp3 Calls, song, August 15, 1997. Pantanal, sunny, 30°C, with Pitangus sulphuratus, Furnarius rufus.
- Gnori3.mp3 Calls, Pantanal, August 16, 1997
- Gnori4.mp3 Calls, Pantanal, August 16, 1997
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
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 | gnorimopsar chopi | Chopi Blackbird | Icteridae,Icterinae |
| CLEMENTS | gnorimopsar chopi | Chopi Blackbird | Icteridae,Icterinae |
| AOU_HM | gnorimopsar chopi | Chopi Blackbird | Icteridae,Icterinae |
Source details
- Identifier on this site
- seb_species_0471
- Account identifier
- seb_account_0471
- Account number on the disc
- 471
- Source edition
- CD03 / 2006 package
- Original taxonomy scheme
- WORLD
- Structure status
- heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative