Known from the discs' own bird lists
Pheasant Cuckoo
dromococcyx phasianellus
Cuculidae,Neomorphinae
- 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
36 cm. The adult is brown above with scaly feathers, a short chestnut crest, a white superciliary and a long graduated tail with a white tip; white below, the breast whitish buff with dark streaks; eye ring yellow green; iris brown to yellow; mandible black, maxilla pale; feet grayish brown.
The immature is sooty brown, finely spotted with buff on a black crown; wing coverts and upper tail coverts with round buff apical spots; flight feathers terminally buff, breast buff.
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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
Song a "siii...siiii...werrrrr...", final note quavering, also a four-note call like"sah,,see.. si..seee" (119).
Behavior Disc 1 · 2011
Forages flying from tree to tree in subcanopy or dense underground scub.
Habitat and status Disc 1 · 2011
Rare in humid forest, scrub, thickets, tangled secondary forest with dense undergrowth, seasonally inundated forest. Sea level to 1600 meters.
Distribution Disc 1 · 2011
Throughout, formerly encountered inland in gallery forests, no recent records. Still occurs at Iguazu Falls in Argentina (119).
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
Call, March 1998, Explornapo Lodge near Iquitos, Peru. Primary rain forest, 35°C, humid. 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: NUSP.CKD; RERB.CKD
Listed on product/edition lists: SEBRAZIL.CKD; SEBZ_D1.CKD
Disc 3 · 2006
Selected on local checklists: NUSP.CKD; RERB.CKD; SDTC.CKD
Listed on product/edition lists: SEBZ_D1.CKD; Sebrazil.ckd
Disc 1 · 2011
Selected on local checklists: NUSP.CKD; RERB.CKD; SDTC.CKD
Listed on product/edition lists: SEBZ_D1.CKD; Sebrazil.ckd