Known from the discs' own bird lists
Sapphire-spangled Emerald
polyerata lactea
Trochilidae
- 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
8-11 cm. The male has a black mandible and pink maxilla tipped grayish-black; the crown, neck and flanks bronze-green, the rest of upperparts golden to bronze-green; throat, upper breast glittering violet blue; center of breast white, belly grayish, undertail coverts gray with brown basal streak; center rectrices basally shining green, laterally as outer rectrices bluish black.
The female has a more grayish throat; outermost tail rectrices with grayish tips;
The immature has extended gray areas on the underside.
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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
A very fast and highly pitched "zididi....zididi..."
Behavior Disc 1 · 2011
Forages for nectar and small arthropods at a great variet of flowering plants. Male establishes a territory.
Breeding Disc 1 · 2011
August - December.
Habitat and status Disc 1 · 2011
Not uncommon in suitable areas in forest edge, gallery forest, clearings in second growth, capoeira, parks and gardens.
Distribution Disc 1 · 2011
Throughout. Common inland in Estado São Paulo. Closer to the coast reported from Itapetininga, Capao Bonito, Bananal, São Jose do Barreiro (119), Serra Mantiqueira, Serra dos Orgãos.
Taxonomy notes Disc 1 · 2011
Smaller than Polyerata fimbriata.
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
Macaulay 29376 Disc 1 · 2011
Macaulay 98859 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: BRSB.CKD; FZSB.CKD; ITSB.CKD; JUSB.CKD; NUSP.CKD; RERB.CKD; RIRB.CKD; SDSB.CKD; SRRB.CKD; SRSB.CKD; SSSB.CKD
Listed on product/edition lists: SEBRAZIL.CKD; SEBZ_D1.CKD
Disc 3 · 2006
Selected on local checklists: BRSB.CKD; FZSB.CKD; ITSB.CKD; JUSB.CKD; NUSP.CKD; RERB.CKD; RIRB.CKD; SDSB.CKD; SDTC.CKD; SRRB.CKD; SRSB.CKD; SSSB.CKD
Listed on product/edition lists: SEBZ_D1.CKD; Sebrazil.ckd
Disc 1 · 2011
Selected on local checklists: BRSB.CKD; FZSB.CKD; ITSB.CKD; JUSB.CKD; NUSP.CKD; RERB.CKD; RIRB.CKD; SDSB.CKD; SDTC.CKD; SRRB.CKD; SRSB.CKD; SSSB.CKD
Listed on product/edition lists: SEBZ_D1.CKD; Sebrazil.ckd