Known from the discs' own bird lists

Black-eared Fairy

heliothryx aurita

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

10.1-13.7 cm. The male has a short straight black bill; crown glittering green; subocular band black; ear coverts glittering purple; the rest of the upper parts shining green; underparts white; tail rounded, the outer three rectrices white, the two central rectrices dark blue.

The female is similar but lacking glittering purple ear coverts; throat and breast with gray dots; the female's tail is longer than that of the male; white outer three rectrices with a black basal band.

The immature is like the female, but the head feathers have cinnamon fringes.

Male Disc 1 · 2011
Female Disc 1 · 2011

Each plate is labelled with the disc's own caption.

Voice Disc 1 · 2011

Call a sharp "tik".

Behavior Disc 1 · 2011

Forages for nectar and small arthropods on flowering plants from the middle stratum to the tree tops.

Habitat and status Disc 1 · 2011

Uncommon in southeast Brazil in humid primary and secondary forest borders, glades, gardens. Sea level - 800 meters.

Distribution Disc 1 · 2011

Humid forests of the litoral. In Estado Rio recorded from Cachoeira de Macacu. In Estado São Paulo recorded from Fazenda Intervales, Caverna do Diabo, PE Jacupiranga (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.

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: PJSB.CKD; RIRB.CKD

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

Disc 3 · 2006

Selected on local checklists: PJSB.CKD; RIRB.CKD; SDTC.CKD

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

Disc 1 · 2011