Subspecies Barnardius zonarius macgillivrayi (North, 1900)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Platycercus macgillivrayi North, A.J. 1900. Description of a new parrakeet from the Burke district, north Queensland. Victorian Naturalist 17: 91-93 [91].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM 0.11837 unsexed (?♂) adult, Leilavale Station, Fullarton River, 48 km E of Cloncurry, QLD (as about 30 miles east of Cloncurry)
  Comment: for identification of holotype, see Hindwood, K.A. 1946. A list of the types and paratypes of birds from Australian localities in the Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 21: 386–393; Longmore (1991).

  Type locality references:

  Longmore, N.W. 1991. Type specimens of birds in the Australian Museum. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum n 4: 1-42.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Selwyn Range and fringing river systems, QLD, north to Musselbrook Creek and middle Leichhardt River, east to middle Cloncurry River and Cadell Creek, south to Glenormiston and Boulia, and west to Toko-Tarlton Ranges and Springvale, NT, but apparently absent from much of intervening Georgina River system (specimens in ANWC). Intergrades to south-east with B. z. barnardi (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827) along upper Diamantina River drainage.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld: Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, florivore, folivore, frugivorous, granivore, gregarious, low open woodland, low woodland, nomadic, resident, terrestrial, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, in eucalypt woodlands and eucalypt-lined watercourses, feeds mainly on seeds on ground and in trees, flies in shallow undulations bringing wings in to side of body, nests on bed of wood dust/debris in tree hollows, incubation by female, both sexes rear pale grey-downed, yellowish-billed chicks, wanders locally or regionally to seasonal food sources.

 

General References

Ford, J. & Parker, S.A. 1974. Distribution and taxonomy of some birds from south-western Queensland. The Emu 74: 177-194 (distribution, evolution)

Horton, W. 1975. The birds of Mt. Isa. Sunbird 6: 49-69 (status, nidification)

Lendon, A.H. 1940. Eggs of the Cloncurry Parrot. South Australian Ornithologist 15: 82 (nidification)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020		01-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
10-Nov-2020		28-Feb-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)