Known from the discs' own bird lists
Great Horned Owl
bubo virginianus
Strigidae
- 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
Male 50 cm, female 61 cm. An owl with large ear tufts; facial disc buff with a black rim; eye brown; above brownish, mottled and vermiculated darker and whitish; crown similar, but finely barred dark and light buff; outer webs of scapulars with rather large whitish areas; flight and tail feathers barred dark and buff; outer webs of primaries buff, inner webs whitish; underparts brownish buff coarsely barred darker becoming white on the belly; throat white; upper breast with black blotches and cross bars; tarsi and toes feathered; eyes yellow, the eyelids with a black edge.
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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
Courtship call "hu.huhuuuu....huu...huu", frequently as duet.
Behavior Disc 1 · 2011
A diverse range of prey from insects to herons, some times takes carrion; hunts in open areas from a perch, drops down to the ground to catch prey.
Habitat and status Disc 1 · 2011
Status not known. Occurs in a wide range of habitats from open forest, swamp forest, farmland with remnants of forest, parks, mangroves, to rocky open areas with some woodland. Sea level to 4000 meters.
Distribution Disc 1 · 2011
Throughout, no records with exception of "Rio de Janeiro" in Pinto.
Taxonomy notes Disc 1 · 2011
Race nacurutu in southeast Brazil.
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
Collpa, upstream from Explorer's Inn, Madre dos Dios, Peru. August 1995. A pair calling in the early morning. 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; SRRB.CKD
Listed on product/edition lists: SEBRAZIL.CKD; SEBZ_D1.CKD
Disc 3 · 2006
Selected on local checklists: NUSP.CKD; RERB.CKD; SRRB.CKD
Listed on product/edition lists: SEBZ_D1.CKD; Sebrazil.ckd
Disc 1 · 2011
Selected on local checklists: NUSP.CKD; RERB.CKD; SRRB.CKD
Listed on product/edition lists: SEBZ_D1.CKD; Sebrazil.ckd