Known from the discs' own bird lists
Greater Ani
crotophaga major
Cuculidae,Crotophaginae
- 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
46 cm. The male is much larger than the female. The adult is glossy blue black with bronzy green feather edges; iris white; bill long, black, laterally compressed with an high arched ridge at the base of the upper mandible; feet black.
The immature has a brown iris.
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The disc records this picture against the bird without a caption. Disc 1 · 2011
The account, continued
Voice Disc 1 · 2011
Lound guttural bubbling series of calls of several individuals in unison "krokrokrokro..." and growling croaks and hisses.
Behavior Disc 1 · 2011
Forages on the ground, low in scrub or in the canopy.
Habitat and status Disc 1 · 2011
Rare, only occurs in spring. Confined to galery forests (mata ciliar), swamps in forests.
Distribution Disc 1 · 2011
Only inland records from Batatais, Lagoa São Paulo, Teodora Sampaio, Ilha Taquarucu, Ananghai, Aracangua.
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
Calls of a group. August 2006, Napo Wildlife Center, Ecuador. Sunny, 27°C, humid. With Xiphorhynchus guttatus, Attila spadiceus. Disc 1 · 2011
Calls. Linhares, Espiritu Santo, November 2005. Hot, 30°C, some clouds. 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: JUSB.CKD; MOSB.CKD; RERB.CKD
Listed on product/edition lists: SEBRAZIL.CKD; SEBZ_D1.CKD
Disc 3 · 2006
Selected on local checklists: JUSB.CKD; MOSB.CKD; MRRB.CKD; RERB.CKD; SDTC.CKD
Listed on product/edition lists: SEBZ_D1.CKD; Sebrazil.ckd
Disc 1 · 2011
Selected on local checklists: JUSB.CKD; MOSB.CKD; MRRB.CKD; RERB.CKD; SDTC.CKD
Listed on product/edition lists: SEBZ_D1.CKD; Sebrazil.ckd