Known from the discs' own bird lists

Amethyst Woodstar

calliphlox amethystina

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

6.0-6.6 cm. The male has a medium-sized, straight black bill; above dark bronze green; throat and sides of neck amethyst bordered with dull white; the rest of the underparts gray with green discs; tail rather long, deeply forked, the outer rectrices dark purplish brown, tipped bronze.

The female is like the male but throat is whitish with a few glittering amethyst discs; underparts rufous; tail short square, the central feathers green, the rest black with cinnamon tips.

Male Disc 1 · 2011
Female Disc 1 · 2011

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

Voice Disc 1 · 2011

Call a weak "chep", during display flight a "zi..ti.. ti..ti.." (¹¹⁹).

Behavior Disc 1 · 2011

Forages for nectar at a great variety of shrubs, trees and herbs; hawks for insects; forages in bushes and small trees.

Breeding Disc 1 · 2011

November - April.

Habitat and status Disc 1 · 2011

Common in most of its range. Lives in a great variety of habitats from open bush savannah to humid forest borders, parks, gardens.

Distribution Disc 1 · 2011

Throughout. In Estado São Paulo recorded from Manduri, Aracacu, Broa, Itirapina, Campinas, Ubatumirim, Itapirapua, Fazenda Intervales, Pindamonhangaba (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.

More images

Photo by Fritz Mueller Disc 1 · 2011
Photo by Fritz Mueller. 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: 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: ANRB.CKD; FASB.CKD; PJSB.CKD; RERB.CKD; RIRB.CKD; SERB.CKD; SRRB.CKD; SSSB.CKD

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

Disc 3 · 2006

Selected on local checklists: ANRB.CKD; FASB.CKD; PJSB.CKD; RERB.CKD; RIRB.CKD; SDTC.CKD; SERB.CKD; SRRB.CKD; SSSB.CKD

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

Disc 1 · 2011