Known from the discs' own bird lists
American Swallow-tailed Kite
elanoides forficatus
Accipitridae
- Disc 2 · 2001 listed
- Disc 3 · 2006 listed
- Disc 1 · 2011 listed
The detailed account of this bird below comes from Disc 1 · 2011. The other discs list the bird but carry no account of it, and none is invented here.
From the original Disc 1 · 2011 revision
Detailed account — Disc 1 · 2011
This detailed account first appears in the 2011 Disc 1 revision; the earlier releases have no account for this bird.
Description Disc 1 · 2011
56 - 61 cm. A white headed hawk with a very deeply forked tail; head, neck lower back and undersides white; wings and tail glossy black; upper back, scapulars, lesser wing coverts greenish or purplish black; iris reddish or dark brown; bill plumbeous; feet blue gray.
In the immature the head and upper breast is narrowly streaked with blackish brown.
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Adult Disc 1 · 2011
The account, continued
Voice Disc 1 · 2011
Repeated whitstles "wi wi wi wi..."
Behavior Disc 1 · 2011
Frequently seen soaring over forests and sometimes over open country.
Breeding Disc 1 · 2011
Status and Habitat : Uncommon in large forests and borders.
Distribution Disc 1 · 2011
Throughout. In Estado São Paulo reported from Sete Barras, PE Jacupiranga, Cananeia, Alto do Ribeira, Fazenda Intervales.
The Disc 2 · 2001 contains no detailed account for this bird (its 2011 account is shown above). None is invented here.
The Disc 3 · 2006 contains no detailed account for this bird (its 2011 account is shown above). None is invented here.
Vocalizations
Each disc's own recording entries are shown under that disc's label. A player appears only where the recording's file survives on a preserved disc.
Disc 1 · 2011
Recorded by Sjoerd Mayer. Disc 1 · 2011
More images
The disc records this picture against the bird without a caption. Disc 1 · 2011 Photo by Fritz Mueller Disc 1 · 2011
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
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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.
Historical checklist participation
Disc 2 · 2001
Selected on local checklists: ANRB.CKD; CASB.CKD; FASB.CKD; JUSB.CKD; MOSB.CKD; PARB.CKD; PCSB.CKD; PJSB.CKD; PNSB.CKD; RIRB.CKD; SERB.CKD; SSSB.CKD
Listed on product/edition lists: SEBRAZIL.CKD; SEBZ_D1.CKD
Disc 3 · 2006
Selected on local checklists: ANRB.CKD; CASB.CKD; FASB.CKD; JUSB.CKD; MOSB.CKD; PARB.CKD; PCSB.CKD; PJSB.CKD; PNSB.CKD; RIRB.CKD; SDTC.CKD; SERB.CKD; SSSB.CKD
Listed on product/edition lists: SEBZ_D1.CKD; Sebrazil.ckd
Disc 1 · 2011
Selected on local checklists: ANRB.CKD; CASB.CKD; FASB.CKD; JUSB.CKD; MOSB.CKD; PARB.CKD; PCSB.CKD; PJSB.CKD; PNSB.CKD; RIRB.CKD; SDTC.CKD; SERB.CKD; SSSB.CKD
Listed on product/edition lists: SEBZ_D1.CKD; Sebrazil.ckd