Known from the discs' own bird lists

Glittering-throated Emerald

polyerata fimbriata

Trochilidae

Disc 2 · 2001 listed
Disc 3 · 2006 listed
Disc 1 · 2011 listed

Account on Disc 1 · 2011 only

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

10-12 cm. The male has a straight medium sized bill with a black mandible, maxilla pink with a black tip; upperparts golden to bronze green; throat and breast glittering golden green; center of lower breast and belly white; undertail coverts white with brownish centers; tail dark bronze green to blackish-bronze.

The female has white subterminal bars on the throat feathers; the outermost rectrices have gray tips.

The immature is more gray brown.

The disc records this picture against the bird without a caption. Disc 1 · 2011

Voice Disc 1 · 2011

Very highly pitched "tsi.tsitsi...tsi.tsitsi..." called about five times by birds sitting on an exposed perch.

Behavior Disc 1 · 2011

Frequents lower strata of flowering trees, forages by trap-lining; also hunts for small arthropods.

Breeding Disc 1 · 2011

Almost all year round.

Habitat and status Disc 1 · 2011

Common in open and semi-open areas, savannah, capoeira, caatinga in the interior, forest edge, parks, gardens, plantations.

Distribution Disc 1 · 2011

Throughout.

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.

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: aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1

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: FASB.CKD; ILSB.CKD; NUSP.CKD; PESB.CKD; PJSB.CKD; RERB.CKD; RIRB.CKD; SRSB.CKD; SSSB.CKD; STSB.CKD; UBSB.CKD

Listed on product/edition lists: SEBRAZIL.CKD; SEBZ_D1.CKD

Disc 3 · 2006

Selected on local checklists: FASB.CKD; ILSB.CKD; MRRB.CKD; NUSP.CKD; PARB.CKD; PESB.CKD; PJSB.CKD; RERB.CKD; RIRB.CKD; SDTC.CKD; SRSB.CKD; SSSB.CKD; STSB.CKD; UBSB.CKD

Listed on product/edition lists: SEBZ_D1.CKD; Sebrazil.ckd

Disc 1 · 2011