Family CACATUIDAE


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R. Schodde & I.J. Mason, CSIRO Australian National Wildlife Collection, Canberra, Australia

Introduction

[After Schodde (1997), but updated following Joseph et al. (2012)]
Cacatuidae (cockatoos) comprise about 19–21 species in six genera; fourteen species in all six genera occur in Australia. The Australian fossil record, of mainly extant species, is limited to the Holocene-Pleistocene of southern Victoria and south-eastern South Australia, except for recently recorded material of 'Cacatua' from the early-mid Miocene in north-western Queensland (Boles 1993). The family is centred in Australia, where four of the six genera are endemic; beyond, it ranges through islands in the south-west Pacific to the Philippines and Solomon Islands.

Cockatoos are gregarious birds that feed on the ground or in trees on seeds won from hard fruit by the cutting action of the lower mandible or the scooping action of the maxilla, according to species. They clump-roost, drink by scooping, and bathe only (?) in rain; their voices are characteristically loud and hoarse screeches and whistles. Nests, defended in undefended territories, are of unconstructed beds in hollows or holes; eggs are ellipsoidal, plain-white and slightly glossy, and are incubated by sexes according to subfamily, q.v.; young are altricial, nidicolous, blind at hatching, covered with long yellow down (grey in Probosciger, pink in Eolophus), and they are fed by pump-regurgitation.

Family-group Systematics

In the Catalogue, cockatoos are split from other parrots as a family, for two reasons. Firstly, given that parrot-like birds form a single order (Psittaciformes), their primary lineages are better treated as families than infra-familial taxa wherever they are not so closely linked phylogenetically as to make this unrealistic. Secondly, biochemical and chromosomal studies (Adams et al. 1984; Christidis et al. 1991a, 1991b; Joshua & Parker 1993) have now built on the morphological and behavioural assessments of Beddard & Parsons (1893); Beddard (1898); Thompson (1899); Mudge (1902); Boetticher (1943, 1959); Verheyen (1956); Glenny (1957, 1959); Brereton & Immelmann (1962); Smith (1975) and Homberger (1980, 1991) to single out the cockatoos as a particularly distinctive assemblage among the Psittaciformes, well distant from other parrots. Condon (1975), Wolters (1975–1982), Homberger (1991) and Christidis et al. (1991a) took this view, discounting the idiosyncratic approach of Mathews (1913) and his subsequent revisions which split the cockatoos into further families. The most widespread alternative arrangement follows Fürbringer (1888) in combining cockatoos with all other parrots in a single family, Psittacidae, e.g. Stresemann (1927–1934); Peters (1937); Boetticher (1943, 1959); Mayr & Amadon (1951); Smith (1975); Homberger (1980); Sibley et al. (1988) and Sibley & Ahlquist (1990).

Within Cacatuidae four principal lineages (but cf. Homberger 1991) were recognised by Schodde (1997) as follows:

Microglossinae Bonaparte, 1853 (palm cockatoos)—large, heavily built, slatey-black cockatoos with massive, permanently open bills, coloured facial skin, rather long and square plain tails, finely plumed erectile but uncoloured crests, feathered ceres and little sexual dimorphism; they also head-scratch under the wing, clump and allopreen (?), and only the female broods—young are uniquely grey-downed; diploid karyotype 2n = 74, with four pairs of acrocentric and four pairs of telocentric autosomal macrochromosomes, and Z-chromosome ?metacentric. The single species is shared by Cape York Peninsula and New Guinea, in the genus Probosciger Kuhl, 1820.

Calyptorhynchinae Bonaparte, 1853 (black cockatoos)—large but slender black cockatoos with long and colour-banded tails, uncoloured recumbent crests, naked ceres, and moderate sexual dimorphism; they also head-scratch under the wing, neither clump nor allopreen, and only the female broods, fed by the male; diploid karyotype 2n = 78, with eight pairs of telocentric autosomal macrochromosomes, and Z-chrosomome submetacentric. Their five species comprise one genus, Calyptorhynchus Desmarest, 1826, endemic to Australia.

Cacatuinae G.R. Gray, 1840 (white cockatoos)—stocky white, pink or grey cockatoos with short and usually plain tails, coloured and often up-curved erectile crests, feathered nares, and slight sexual dimorphism (Callocephalon Lesson, 1830 excepted); they also head-scratch under the wing, clump and allopreen, and both sexes brood without support feeding; diploid karyotype 2n = 82 or 76, with 8 pairs of telocentric autosomal macrochromosomes or two pairs acrocentric, and Z-chromosome metacentric (Callocephalon Lesson, 1857 not known). Comprising three genera, the group is centred in Australia where two genera are endemic: Callocephalon Lesson, 1837 and Eolophus Bonaparte, 1854. Callocephalon is included in this lineage based on data in Adams et al. (1984) contra Condon (1975), but its position is problematic, as is that of Eolophus (Homberger 1991). Callocephalon, in particular, may comprise a separate subfamial group (Homberger loc. cit.).

Nymphicinae Bonaparte, 1857 (cockatiel)—diminutive grey cockatoos with slender, attenuate parrot-like wings and tails, up-curved crests, naked ceres, and sexually dimorphic faces and patterned tails; both sexes also head-scratch over the wing, allopreen and brood without support feeding; diploid karyotype 2n = 72, with three pairs of acrocentric, one pair of metacentric and three pairs of telocentric autosomal macrochromosomes, and Z-chromosome submetacentric. The single species is endemic to Australia, in the genus Nymphicus Wagler, 1832. Despite past dispute, there is now an overwhelming consensus of morphological, karyotypic, behavioural and biochemical evidence to show that the cockatiel forms a root lineage among the Cacatuidae (Salvadori 1891; Mudge 1902; Wolters 1975–1982; Adams et al. 1984 and references therein; Christidis et al. 1991b; Birt et al. 1992; Joshua & Parker 1993). Its relationships within the cockatoos, however, are still unclear.

These four lineages were treated as subfamilies by Schodde (1997), after Condon (1975) and data in Adams et al. (1984), Christidis et al. (1991a) and Joshua & Parker (1993), cf. Homberger (1991). However, fowwlowing Joseph et al. (2012), the Microglossinae are reduced in status to a tribe within subfamily Cacatuinae, together with Cacatuini.

Genus-group Systematics

Calyptorhynchus Desmarest, 1826—Two subgenera of black cockatoos are distinguishable. Although recognised by Peters (1937) and Wolters (1975–1982), they have never been diagnosed comprehensively; only their external morphological traits are summarized here. In the red-tailed nominotypical subgenus, adult males are plain black with a plain vermillion band in the tail, and females and/or immatures are banded and spotted yellowish with a yellowish red to yellow band in the tail barred black; ear coverts and periophthalmic skin are plain (or spotted) and black in both sexes. Calyptorhynchus lathami (Temminck, 1807) is a member of this group, as pointed out by Ford (1980). In subgenus Zanda Mathews 1913, the contour plumage is edged yellowish or whitish, and the tail has a broad pale yellow or white band flecked variably with dusky speckling in both sexes; ear coverts are yellow or white (duller in males) and periophthalmic skin is sexually dimorphic: flesh-pink in males, black in females; males also have paler feet. That the two subgenera merit generic separation is a likelihood that needs further study, cf. Adams et al. (1984, Figs 3 and 4).

Cacatua Vieillot, 1817—Limits and lineages in the white cockatoos are not well resolved. Included here in Cacatua Vieillot, 1817 are those species with prevailingly white or pinkish white plumage, frequently coloured crests, prevailingly telocentric karyotype (cf. Christidis et al. 1991b; Joshua & Parker 1993), no palatine processes on the maxillaries (D.G. Homberger, pers. comm.), a single left carotid artery and yellow-downed nestlings. This circumscription is conventional except for the exclusion of the Galah, Eolophus roseicapillus (Vieillot, 1817), q.v. Within Cacatua, three principal species-groups were identified by Adams et al. (1984) (cf. Homberger 1991)—they are treated as subgenera here:

(1) nominotypical Cacatua which includes the broad-winged, black-billed, plain-colour-crested 'white cockatoo' group;

(2) subgenus Licmetis Wagler, 1832 which includes the slender-winged, white-billed, vestigially crested corellas; and

(3) subgenus Lophochroa Bonaparte, 1857, comprising the broad-winged, white-billed, multi-colour-crested Pink Cockatoo, Cacatua leadbeateri Vigors, 1831, which may be of disparate affinity (Homberger 1991).

Eolophus Bonaparte, 1854—The position of the Galah is controversial because morphological evidence favouring monogeneric status (Holyoak 1970; Forshaw 1981; Homberger & Schodde in Schodde 1989) is in conflict with protein evidence grouping it with the corellas in Cacatua Vieillot, 1817 (Adams et al. 1984). The last study, and Boles (1993), presume that the protein evidence—or its computation by the distance-Wagner algorithm—is necessarily correct phylogenetically. Inspection of the protein data indicates that the Galah shares almost as many apparent allelic synapomorphies with the Cockatiel (Nymphicus Wagler, 1832) as with the corellas. Moreover, judged by allelic expression across both calyptorhynchine and cacatuine lineages, there seems to be some homoplasy in the loci screened. The protein-based phylogeny thus needs corroboration. For the Galah, this is not forthcoming from morphology in traits which extend from plumage colour pattern and the structure of the auditory region of the skull (Holyoak 1970) to pink-downed nestlings (Forshaw 1981), form of the wing (Miller 1915), paired carotid arteries (Glenny 1955, in Homberger 1991), karyotype of 2n = 76, with two pairs of acrocentric macrochromosomes (Christidis et al. 1991b; Joshua & Parker 1993), and broadened palate with erect and terminally hooked palatine processes on the maxillaries. These processes, first reported by Homberger & Schodde in Schodde (1989) contra Boles (1993), are missing from all other Cacatuidae except Nymphicus and Callocephalon Lesson, 1837, being vestigial in the latter. Together with the forward attachment of the M. genioglossus in the lower mandible and the absence of fine paired caudo-medial processes on the maxillary shelf fronting the ventral surface of the naso-frontal hinge, they indicate that the oral myology of the Galah is different from that of Cacatua, including the corellas (D.G. Homberger & R. Schodde, pers. comm.). Courtney (1993) recorded ten traits in juvenile begging and external morphology that tied the Galah into Cacatua, but two of them (white = pigmentless contour plumage, colour of down) are misreported and the others can be interpreted as symplesiomorphies in the cacatuine lineage which may include Callocephalon as well. Symplesiomorphic too, it may argued, are the oral osteology and myology of the Galah. Until such questions are answered, cladogenesis among the cacatuine cockatoos will remain unresolved; in the interim, the relatively distinctive Galah is kept in Eolophus Bonaparte, 1854 pending clarification of its position.

Species-group Systematics

Probosciger aterrimus (Gmelin, 1788)—Geographical variation in size, apparently chequered in pattern, is understood from series of specimens that are still too meagre, leaving the limits of subspecies around the Arafura Sea in doubt. The earlier arrangements of five subspecies proposed by Peters (1937) and Mayr (1937) may be more realistic than those put forward by Mees (1957, 1982) and Forshaw (1978). Accordingly, a conservative approach is taken here in accepting as distinct the zoogeographically coherent populations on Cape York Peninsula and Trans-Fly region of New Guinea; these are intermediate in size between the small nominotypical aterrimus on the Aru Islands and the huge P. a. goliath (Kuhl, 1820) throughout rainforested southern New Guinea.

Calyptorhynchus banksii (Latham, 1790)—Ford's thorough revision (1980) leaves several questions unresolved: what the nature of intergradation among northern populations around the eastern head of the Gulf of Carpentaria, and are the similar-looking isolates across inland Australia, between the Western Australian wheatbelt and central Darling River, New South Wales, monophyletic or convergent from different ancestral stocks? In the Catalogue, the similarities among inland populations are taken at face value, as for Cacatua sanguinea gymnopis Sclater, 1871 (q.v.), and treated as representing a single fragmented form. The nexus in northern populations at the head of the Gulf of Carpentaria, moreover, is treated conservatively as secondary, as in so many other Torresian species (Macdonald 1969; Ford 1987). The status of the morphologically and ecologically distinctive southeast Australian isolate, C. b. graptogyne Schodde, Saunders & Homberger, 1989, also needs further clarification.

Calyptorhynchus funereus (Shaw, 1794)—Despite Saunders' (1979) detailed revision, documentation of infra-specific differentiation is incomplete. Zones of intergradation between large eastern and small southern populations on the south-east mainland have not been defined; Courtney (1986) suggested that the two forms are specifically distinct. The isolated population in Tasmania, moreover, may be inversely sexually dimorphic in size. Accordingly, subspecies recognised here are provisional.

Calyptorhynchus latirostris Carnaby, 1948—When Saunders (1979) showed that the two white-tailed black cockatoos in south-western Australia (baudinii Lear, 1832 and latirostris Carnaby, 1848) were better treated as specifically distinct, he combined the short-billed form, latirostris, with the eastern yellow-tailed allospecies, C. funereus (Shaw, 1794). Biochemical evidence, however, indicates that the two white-tailed forms are one another's closest relatives (Adams et al. 1984), a relationship consistent with their colour and finer feet with straighter and slenderer claws. Accordingly, latirostris is treated here as a separate species (also Sibley & Monroe 1990). Mechanisms for its speciation are canvassed in Schodde & Mason (1991).

Cacatua galerita (Latham, 1790)—The last revision of Australian populations (Forshaw 1968) is followed here, pending a more complete analysis of variation in body size, bill form and length and breadth of the crest. If eastern C. g. galerita (Latham, 1790) and north-western C. g. fitzroyi (Mathews, 1912) prove to be subspecifically distinct, their nexus will probably lie along the Carpentaria Barrier around the eastern head of the Gulf of Carpentaria, cf. Macdonald (1969) and Ford (1987).

Cacatua pastinator (Gould, 1841)—Given the likelihood that C. sanguinea Gould, 1843 has only recently invaded the range of pastinator Gould, 1841 from the north, their treatment by Ford (1985) as distinct species is followed contingent on their continuing sympatry. Evidence of contact older than the last several decades is based on one unsatisfactory sight record. The alternative treatment of pastinator and sanguinea as conspecific by Schodde et al. (1979) was also expressly provisional for the same reason, a point commonly misquoted by omission in citations.

Cacatua sanguinea Gould, 1843—Following Schodde et al. (1979), the two isolated but similar-looking eastern and western populations across inland Australia are combined subspecifically under C. s. gymnopis Sclater, 1871. Ford (1985) separated them but his data show that they are barely different morphologically; their present geographical separation may be no older than post-glacial times and transient. In discounting relictual intergradation between gymnopis and nominotypical sanguinea in the southern Kimberley, Ford (loc. cit.) did not consider the primary diagnostic character (Schodde et al. loc. cit.): residual red feathering around lores and eyes. The issue needs clarification, cf. Ford (1987).

Eolophus roseicapillus (Vieillot, 1817)—Nowhere in literature are the three forms of the Galah well diagnosed. In summary, western E. r. roseicapillus (Vieillot, 1817) has grey crustose periophthalmic skin, a pale pink crown grading into a deeper pink collar, and pale grey rump; eastern E. r. albiceps Schodde, 1989 has warty red periophthalmic skin, a pinkish white crown sharply demarcated from a deeper pink collar, and white-grey rump; and northern E. r. kuhli (Mathews, 1912) has the periophthalmic skin of albiceps, the pinker crown of nominotypical roseicapillus (particularly north-westwards) and is smaller and paler than both. Nominotypical roseicapillus and albiceps intergrade on a broad front through central Australia, details of which have yet to be documented. Since the name roseicapilla Vieillot, 1817 was shown to apply to the western form (Schodde 1989), there has been a tendency to apply the name howei Mathews, 1917 to the eastern form in its stead. The holotype of howei, nevertheless, is from the zone of intergradation between the two (type locality: between Claravale and Ruby Gap, about 100 km northeast of Alice Springs) and its traits intergrade. Accordingly, it is treated here as unidentifiable, i.e. as incertae sedis.

Nymphicus hollandicus (Kerr, 1792)—A modern revision of geographical variation is lacking.

 

Diagnosis

Stocky, usually large, erectile-crested parrots with large hooked and cered bills, and prevailingly white, black or grey plumage without green or blue tones conferred by 'dyck texture'; body feathering coarse, in diffuse tracts, powder downs present in lumbar region and otherwise scattered; aftershafts present, downy; uropygial gland small to vestigial. Feet zygodactylous; tarsi short with fine reticulate scaling, toes longer, reticulately scaled, holding food to bill. Sexes similar (Cacatua, Probosciger, Eolophus) or dissimilar (other genera). Wings long and broadly rounded: 10 primaries and 10 diastataxic secondaries moulting erratically; tail broadly rounded (except Nymphicus): 12 rectrices moulting erratically. Nares holorhinal and impervious, nasal septum imperforate; desmognathous palate, with or without vestigial vomer; maxillaries articulating with deep, bilaterally compressed and twisted palatines, naso-frontal hinge jointed by a diarthrosis or ligamentis syndesmosis; lachrymals extended in processes to reach zygomatic processes, encircling orbit and bridging the temporal fossae (Nymphicus (sometimes) and Calyptorhynchus subg. Zanda excepted); basipterygoid processes absent; cervical vertebrae (13-14); sternum entire, only spina externa present, clavicles ankylosed in furcula. Musculus expansor secundariorum and biceps slip absent, M. tensor patagium brevis with wristward slip, posterior M. deltoideus larger than anterior; pelvic muscle formula AXY, M. ambiens present; deep plantar tendons Type I. Carotid arteries paired in hypophyseal canal or single through coalescence. Syrinx bronchial, the first rings straight, cartilaginous and separated by membrane. Bare orbital skin around eyes often enlarged and coloured; tongue muscular, tactile, grooved, moved by hyoid apparatus with extensive median foramen in entoglossum; crop present; gall bladder present; no caeca. Diploid karyotype of 72–82 chromosomes, with 7–8 pairs of prevailingly telocentric macrochromosomes.

 

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Subfamily Nymphicinae

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Genus Nymphicus Wagler, 1832

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia


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IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

General References

Salvadori, T. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots. London : British Museum Vol. 20 xvii 658 pp. XVIII pls. (synonymy and generic limits under Calopsittacus Salvadori, 1891)

 

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Species Nymphicus hollandicus (Kerr, 1792)

CAVS: 0274

Cockatiel

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Throughout drier inland regions of Australia, west to the west coast between Geraldton and Dampier Land, WA, but rarely south-west of a line between Perth and Albany—north to the middle Kimberley Division and Arnhem Land, WA, NT, the south shores of the Gulf of Carpentaria and the west foot of Cape York Peninsula, QLD, north to the lower Mitchell River region—east to the west slopes of the Great Dividing Range south of Cape York Peninsula, QLD, NSW, and penetrating to the east coast from the Burdekin to Mary River drainages, QLD—and south to N VIC (Benalla-Horsham), the mallee lands of SA and wheat-belt of WA, erratically reaching the Bassian plain of southern VIC, the upper South-East of SA, the fringes of the lower Mt Lofty Ranges and S Eyre Peninsula—and scarce from the Nullarbor Plain northwards through the central WA deserts (Great Victoria, Gibson and Tanami Deserts)—itinerant records from TAS apparently aviary escapees.


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IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, granivore, low open woodland, low woodland, migratory, nomadic, open forest, terrestrial, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, feeds terrestrially on seeds, flocks, flies swiftly with regular graceful wing beats, nests in hollows lined with wood debris, both parents incubate and feed cream-downed chicks, wanders widely to seasonal food sources, with trans-continental shifts north in autumn-winter and south in spring-summer.

 

General References

Courtney, J. 1974. Comments on the taxonomic position of the Cockatiel. The Emu 74: 97-102 (morphology, behaviour, systematics)

Ford, J. 1974. Speciation in Australian birds adapted to arid habitats. The Emu 74: 161-168 (synonymy)

Holyoak, D.T. 1972. The relation of Nymphicus to the Cacatuinae. The Emu 72: 77-78 (morphology, systematics)

Jones, D. 1987. Feeding ecology of the Cockatiel, Nymphicus hollandicus, in a grain-growing area. Australian Wildlife Research 14: 105-115 (diet, behaviour, ecology)

Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Mathews, G.M. 1946. A Working List of Australian Birds including the Australian Quadrant and New Zealand. Sydney : G.M. Mathews 184 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. (synonymy)

Pidgeon, R. 1981. Calls of the Galah Cacatua roseicapilla and some comparisons with four other species of Australian parrots. The Emu 81: 158-168 (voice)

Salvadori, T. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots. London : British Museum Vol. 20 xvii 658 pp. XVIII pls. (synonymy and specific limits)

Saunders, D.A., Smith, G.T. & Campbell, N.A. 1984. Egg shape within the Australian Psittaciformes with comments on eggs of Nymphicus hollandicus. The Emu 84: 36-37 (oology, systematics)

Whitbourn, E. & Robinson, L.N. 1962. Cockatiels breeding in southern Victoria. Australian Bird Watcher 1: 225-226 (distribution, nidification)

Wolters, H.E. 1975. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey Lief. 1, 1-80 pp. (synonymy)

Yamamoto, J.T., Shields, K.M., Millam, J.R., Roudybush, T.E. & Graw, C.R. 1989. Reproductive activity of force-paired Cockatiels (Nymphicus hollandicus). Auk 106: 86-93 (behaviour)

 

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Subfamily Calyptorhynchinae

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Genus Calyptorhynchus Desmarest, 1826


Compiler and date details

2010–2014 - Wayne Longmore, Museum Victoria

2008 - ABRS — valid names in database modified to conform with Christidis & Boles (2008)

2008 - Upgrade of Charadriiformes by N.W. Longmore, Museum Victoria

2006 - Upgrade of Passeriformes by N.W. Longmore, Museum Victoria

2002 - R. Schodde & I.J. Mason, CSIRO Australian National Wildlife Collection, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia — data on Columbidae–Coracaciidae taken from Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Vol. 37.2; other names added from list provided by R. Schodde

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

General References

Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. (subgeneric arrangement and generic limits)

Forshaw, J.M. 1981. Australian Parrots. 2nd (revised) Edn. Illustrated by W.T. Cooper. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 312 pp. 56 pls. (subgeneric arrangement and generic limits)

Lendon, A.H. 1973. Australian Parrots in Field and Aviary. The comprehensive revised edition of Neville Cayley's standard work. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xxx 342 pp. XIII pls. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Mathews, G.M. 1913. A List of the Birds of Australia containing the names and synonyms connected with each genus, species, and subspecies of birds found in Australia, at present known to the author. London : Witherby xxvii 453 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement also subsequent revisions)

RAOU Checklist Committee, Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union 1926. Official Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union x 212 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Salvadori, T. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots. London : British Museum Vol. 20 xvii 658 pp. XVIII pls. (subgeneric arrangement and generic limits)

 

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Subgenus Calyptorhynchus (Calyptorhynchus) Desmarest, 1826

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Introduction

Based on Calyptorhynchus Horsfield nom. nud. (in Vigors & Horsfield 1825). Also as incorrect subsequent spellings, Calyptorynchus and Calyptorhinchus (see Mathews 1916) and Calypthorhynchus (see Lafresnaye 1834)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia


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IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

General References

Lafresnaye, F. 1834. Sur certaines espèces du genre Calypthorhynchus Vig. et Hors. Magasin de Zoologie (Paris) 1834: pls XXIV-XXVIII

Mathews, G.M. 1916. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pt 1. pp. 1-104 pls 275-282. [Date published 22 Nov. 1916: publication dated as 1916–1917]

Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp.

Vigors, N.A. & Horsfield, T. 1825. In Proceedings of meeting of the Zoological Club of the Linnean Society, May 10, 1925. Zoological Journal London 2: 281 [Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of delivery of the sheets of the "Proceedings" of the Zoological Society of London, from the commencement in 1830 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440]

Vigors, N.A. & Horsfield, T. 1827. A description of the Australian birds in the collection of the Linnean Society; with an attempt at arranging them according to their natural affinities. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 15: 170-331 [Date published 17 Feb 1827: publication dated 1826]

 

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Species Calyptorhynchus (Calyptorhynchus) banksii (Latham, 1790)

CAVS: 0264

Red-tailed Black Cockatoo

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia


IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

General References

Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Forshaw, J.M. 1978. Parrots of the World. 2nd (revised) Edn. Illustrated by W.T. Cooper. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 616 pp. 158 pls. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

North, A.J. 1912. Nests and Eggs of Birds Found Breeding in Australia and Tasmania. Sydney : Australian Museum Spec. Cat. 1 Vol. 3 vii 362 pp. (subspecific arrangement and specific limits)

Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Salvadori, T. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots. London : British Museum Vol. 20 xvii 658 pp. XVIII pls. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Wolters, H.E. 1975. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey Lief. 1, 1-80 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

 

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Subspecies Calyptorhynchus (Calyptorhynchus) banksii banksii (Latham, 1790)

CAVS: 8858

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Introduction

The type designation of Psittacus banksii Latham, 1790 is based on the Bankian [sic] Cockatoo in Latham (1787: 63–64, pl. 109), and on black cockatoos recorded at the Endeavour River, QLD, in July 1770 by Parry (in Schodde, R. & Tidemann, S.C. 1986) and by Cook (1773) (reference not confirmed)—these records in turn are based wholly or in part on a female collected and brought back to England by Joseph Banks and evidently figured on plate 10 of the Parkinson drawings in BMNH, see Latham (1787). varieties ß and gamma in the original description of banksii Latham are excluded here as they evidently apply instead to Calyptorhynchus lathami (Temminck, 1807) (q.v.), see ICZN Art. 72(b)(i); for identification of possible holotype of Psittacus banksii Latham, 1790, see von Pelzeln, A. 1873. the identification of BMNH 1863.7.7.53 as type by Salvadori, T. 1891. has been rejected by Warren (1966).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Coastal and near inland NE Australia, north and north-west to central Cape York Peninsula and lower Norman-Flinders Rivers, QLD, inland on western scarps of the Great Dividing Range to headwaters of Lake Eyre and Darling River drainages (Darling Downs), and south very erratically to coastal NE NSW (Clarence River catchment)—also larger islands of E QLD coast; originally south-east to at least Hunter River valley (Port Stephens), NSW, but now extinct there—historical records from further south in coastal NSW appear to be of misidentified Calyptorhynchus lathami (Temminck, 1807).


IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, low open woodland, low woodland, mangrove, nomadic, open forest, terrestrial, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, feeds on seeds and nuts both in trees (mainly bloodwoods, Eucalyptus) and on ground, flies above forest-woodland canopy with slow buoyant wing beats and protracted glides, roosts in loose groups, nests in large hollows lined with wood chips, only female incubates and feeds yellow-downed chick, wanders regionally to seasonal food sources.

 

General References

Cook, J. 1773. An Account of the Voyages under taken by the Order of his present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret and Captain Cook. London : J. Hawkesworth 2 p. 18. [Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of delivery of the sheets of the "Proceedings" of the Zoological Society of London, from the commencement in 1830 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440 Mathews, G.M. 1914. Note on Platycercus (haematogaster), Gould. South Australian Ornithologist 1(2): 15–17]

Ford, J. 1980. Morphological and ecological divergence and convergence in isolated populations of the Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo. The Emu 80: 103-120 (distribution, ecology, morphology, systematics)

Latham, J. 1787. Supplement to the General Synopsis of Birds. London : Leigh & Sotheby iii 298 pp. 109-119 pls. [Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of delivery of the sheets of the "Proceedings" of the Zoological Society of London, from the commencement in 1830 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440]

Llewellyn, L.C. 1974. New records of red-tailed black cockatoos in south-eastern Australia with a discussion of their plumages. The Emu 74: 249-253 [publication date Mathews, G.M. 1920. Dates of ornithological works. Austral Avian Records 4: 1–27 Waterhouse, F.H. 1885. The Dates of Publication of some of the Zoological Works of the late John Gould, F.R.S. London : R.H. Porter xi 59 pp. [Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp. Mathews, G.M. 1919. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 5 pp. 385–499 + xii pls 363–370 Appendixes A & B (Appendix B)]] (distribution, plumages)

Parry, V.A. in Schodde, R. & Tidemann, S.C. (consultant eds) 1986. Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds. Sydney : Readers' Digest Services Edn 2. 639 pp.

Pratt, E.K. 1973. Red-tailed Black Cockatoo in north-eastern New South Wales. Australian Birds 14: 36-37 [Waterhouse, F.H. 1885. The Dates of Publication of some of the Zoological Works of the late John Gould, F.R.S. London : R.H. Porter xi 59 pp. [Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp. Mathews, G.M. 1919. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 5 pp. 385–499 + xii pls 363–370 Appendixes A & B (Appendix B)]] (diet, distribution)

 

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Subspecies Calyptorhynchus (Calyptorhynchus) banksii escondidus Ewart, Joseph & Schodde, 2020

CAVS: 8007

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

The arid and semi-arid zones of WA south of the Kimberley

Australian Endemic.


IBRA

WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Gascoyne (GAS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Yalgoo (YAL)

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Subspecies Calyptorhynchus (Calyptorhynchus) banksii graptogyne Schodde, Saunders & Homberger, 1989

CAVS: 8018

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria


Extra Distribution Information

Restricted to the South-East of SA and western VIC between Bangham, Lucindale, Mt Gambier, Portland, Stawell, and Nhill, including the Grampians—formerly possibly east to Ballarat, Cressy, Daylesford and western Melbourne in historic time.


IBRA

SA, Vic: Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, low woodland, nomadic, open forest, open heath, open scrub, tall forest, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, feeds primarily arboreally on seeds, particularly those of Brown Stringybark (Eucalyptus baxteri), flies above forest canopy with slow buoyant wing beats and protracted glides, roosts in loose groups, nests in large (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) hollows lined with wood chips, only female incubates and feeds yellow-downed chick, wanders regionally to seasonal food sources.

 

General References

Attiwill, A.R. 1960. Red-tailed Black Cockatoo in South-East of South Australia. South Australian Ornithologist 23: 37-38 [Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp. Waterhouse, F.H. 1885. The Dates of Publication of some of the Zoological Works of the late John Gould, F.R.S. London : R.H. Porter xi 59 pp. [Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp. Mathews, G.M. 1919. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 5 pp. 385–499 + xii pls 363–370 Appendixes A & B (Appendix B)]] (status, distribution, feeding, nidification)

Baird, R.F. 1986. Historical records of the Glossy Black Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami and Red-tailed Black Cockatoo C. magnificus in south-eastern Australia. South Australian Ornithologist 30: 38-45 (historic distribution)

Joseph, L. 1982. Distribution records of the Red-tailed Black Cookatoo in south-eastern Australia. Australian Bird Watcher 9: 217-221 [Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of delivery of the sheets of the "Proceedings" of the Zoological Society of London, from the commencement in 1830 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440] (distribution, status)

Joseph, L. 1982. The Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo in south-eastern Australia. The Emu 82: 42-45 [Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of delivery of the sheets of the "Proceedings" of the Zoological Society of London, from the commencement in 1830 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440] (status, distribution, feeding, nidification)

 

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Subspecies Calyptorhynchus (Calyptorhynchus) banksii naso Gould, 1837

CAVS: 8860

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Extreme SW Australia, north to Darling Ranges (Swan-Avon Rivers valley) and east to Wandering and Stirling Ranges, and possibly originally local on Swan River coastal plain — separated from Calyptorhynchus banksii escondidus by a gap of some 20–30 km N and NE of Perth.


IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, nomadic, open forest, tall forest, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, feeds arboreally primarily on seeds, particularly those of Marri (Eucalyptus calophylla), flies above forest canopy with slow buoyant wing beats and protracted glides, roosts in loose groups, nests in large tree hollows lined with wood chips, only female incubates and feeds yellow-downed chick, wanders regionally to seasonal food sources.

 

General References

Ford, J. 1980. Morphological and ecological divergence and convergence in isolated populations of the Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo. The Emu 80: 103-120 (distribution, ecology, morphology, systematics)

Saunders, D.A. 1977. Red-tailed Black Cockatoo breeding twice a year in the south-west of Western Australia. The Emu 77: 107-110 [publication date Meyer de Schauensee, R. 1957. On some avian types, principally Gould's, in the collection of the Academy. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 109: 123–246 Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp. Waterhouse, F.H. 1885. The Dates of Publication of some of the Zoological Works of the late John Gould, F.R.S. London : R.H. Porter xi 59 pp. [Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp. Mathews, G.M. 1919. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 5 pp. 385–499 + xii pls 363–370 Appendixes A & B (Appendix B)]] (distribution, not breeding)

 

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Subspecies Calyptorhynchus (Calyptorhynchus) banksii samueli Mathews, 1917

CAVS: 8857

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

River systems of arid Australia, in a series of now isolated populations, one scattered along the main rivers in and around the Lake Eyre and Bulloo basins (Finke, Diamantina, Cooper-Thomson and Bulloo Rivers, and river systems of central Australian ranges)—and a second along the middle reaches of the Darling River system, east to the lower Barwon River, Macquarie Marshes and middle Bogan River and west to the Menindie Lakes, NSW, rarely reaching Wentworth at the mouth of the Darling.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, low open woodland, nomadic, open forest, open scrub, terrestrial, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, feeds on seeds mainly on ground, infrequently in trees except in central Australia, flies over woodlands with slow buoyant wing beats and protracted glides, roosts in loose but often large groups, nests in large tree hollows lined with wood chips, only female incubates and feeds yellow-downed chick, wanders regionally to seasonal food sources and nesting sites.

 

General References

Fisher, M. 1978. Red-tailed Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus magnificus). Western Austustralian Aviculture Magazine 1978: 147-149 (nidification, feeding, plumages)

Ford, J. 1980. Morphological and ecological divergence and convergence in isolated populations of the Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo. The Emu 80: 103-120 (distribution, ecology, morphology, systematics)

Ford, J. 1987. Taxonomic status of Pheasant Coucal, Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo and Red-backed Fairy-wren in the Pilbara, Western Australia. Western Australian Naturalist 17: 17-18 (distribution)

Saunders, D.A. 1977. Red-tailed Black Cockatoo breeding twice a year in the south-west of Western Australia. The Emu 77: 107-110 [publication date Meyer de Schauensee, R. 1957. On some avian types, principally Gould's, in the collection of the Academy. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 109: 123–246 Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp. Waterhouse, F.H. 1885. The Dates of Publication of some of the Zoological Works of the late John Gould, F.R.S. London : R.H. Porter xi 59 pp. [Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp. Mathews, G.M. 1919. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 5 pp. 385–499 + xii pls 363–370 Appendixes A & B (Appendix B)]] (distribution, nidification)

 

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Species Calyptorhynchus (Calyptorhynchus) lathami (Temminck, 1807)

CAVS: 0265

Glossy Black-cockatoo

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

General References

Condon, H.T. 1951. Notes on the birds of South Australia: occurrence, distribution and taxonomy. South Australian Ornithologist 20: 26-68 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Forshaw, J.M. 1981. Australian Parrots. 2nd (revised) Edn. Illustrated by W.T. Cooper. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 312 pp. 56 pls. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Salvadori, T. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots. London : British Museum Vol. 20 xvii 658 pp. XVIII pls. (subspecific arrangement and specific limits, as Calyptorhynchus viridis (Vieillot, 1817))

Wolters, H.E. 1975. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey Lief. 1, 1-80 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

 

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Subspecies Calyptorhynchus (Calyptorhynchus) lathami erebus Schodde & Mason, 1993

CAVS: 8861

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Ranges and adjacent lowlands of Dawson-Mackenzie-Isaac Rivers drainage, central E QLD, north to Connors-Clarke Ranges, south to Dawes and probably Many Peaks Ranges, and inland to Expedition and probably Peak and Denham Ranges.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, low woodland, nomadic, open forest, open scrub, tall forest, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, feeds almost exclusively on seeds harvested arboreally from large unripe cones of casuarina (Allocasuarina littoralis, A. torulosa, A. verticillata), flies through and above forest canopy with slow buoyant wing beats and protracted gliding, roosts in small groups, nests in large tree hollows lined with wood chips, only female incubates and feeds yellow-downed chick, wanders locally or regionally to seasonal food sources.

 

General References

Pierce, R. 1984. Range extension of Glossy Black Cockatoos. Sunbird 14: 10-11 [Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp. Waterhouse, F.H. 1885. The Dates of Publication of some of the Zoological Works of the late John Gould, F.R.S. London : R.H. Porter xi 59 pp. [Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp. Mathews, G.M. 1919. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 5 pp. 385–499 + xii pls 363–370 Appendixes A & B (Appendix B)]] (distribution)

Schodde, R., Mason, I.J. & Wood, J.T. 1993. Geographical differentiation in the Glossy Black Cockatoo Calytorhynchus lathami (Temminck), and its history. The Emu 93: 156-166 [published Sept. Meyer de Schauensee, R. 1957. On some avian types, principally Gould's, in the collection of the Academy. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 109: 123–246 Waterhouse, F.H. 1885. The Dates of Publication of some of the Zoological Works of the late John Gould, F.R.S. London : R.H. Porter xi 59 pp. [Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp. Mathews, G.M. 1919. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 5 pp. 385–499 + xii pls 363–370 Appendixes A & B (Appendix B)]] (distribution, systematics)

 

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Subspecies Calyptorhynchus (Calyptorhynchus) lathami halmaturinus Mathews, 1912

CAVS: 8863

 

Distribution

States

South Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Kangaroo Is., mainly western end—historical records from S Mt Lofty Range opposite Kangaroo Is. and sub-Recent fossils from the South-East of SA may be of this subspecies.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA

SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, low woodland, nomadic, open forest, open scrub, tall forest, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, feeds virtually exclusively on seeds harvested arboreally from large unripe cones of casuarina (Allocasuarina verticillata), flies through and above forest canopy with slow buoyant wing beats and protracted glides, roosts in small groups, nests in large tree hollows lined with wood chips, only female incubates and feeds yellow-downed chick, wanders locally to seasonal food sources.

 

General References

Baird, R.F. 1986. Historical records of the Glossy Black Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami and Red-tailed Black Cockatoo C. magnificus in south-eastern Australia. South Australian Ornithologist 30: 38-45 (distribution)

Cleland, J.B. & Sims, E.B. 1968. Food of the Glossy Black Cockatoo. South Australian Ornithologist 25: 47 (diet and feeding)

Joseph, L. 1981. The origin of the population of the Glossy Black Cockatoo on Kangaroo Island. South Australian Naturalist 56: 46-47 (zoogeography and origin)

Joseph, L. 1982. The Glossy Black-Cockatoo on Kangaroo Island. The Emu 82: 46-49 [Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of delivery of the sheets of the "Proceedings" of the Zoological Society of London, from the commencement in 1830 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440] (status, distribution, habitat, diet, breeding)

Joseph, L. 1989. The Glossy Black Cockatoo in the south Mount Lofty Ranges. South Australian Ornithologist 30: 202-204 [Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp. Waterhouse, F.H. 1885. The Dates of Publication of some of the Zoological Works of the late John Gould, F.R.S. London : R.H. Porter xi 59 pp. [Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp. Mathews, G.M. 1919. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 5 pp. 385–499 + xii pls 363–370 Appendixes A & B (Appendix B)]] (distribution)

 

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Subspecies Calyptorhynchus (Calyptorhynchus) lathami lathami (Temminck, 1807)

CAVS: 8862

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria


Extra Distribution Information

Coastal and near inland eastern Australia, north to Gympie-Chinchilla, QLD, south to E Gippsland, VIC, and west to the western outliers of the Great Dividing Range, from the headwaters of the Warrego and Darling River systems, QLD, in the north to the Cocoparra and Strathbogie Ranges and W Gippsland (Tarwin) in the south, NSW, VIC—formerly south-west to Port Phillip Bay, VIC, King Is. (subsp.?) and possibly TAS (subsp.?) in historic time—often regionally localised and rare to absent on higher parts and tablelands of the Great Dividing Range in the south.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, low woodland, nomadic, open forest, open scrub, tall forest, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, feeds almost exclusively on seeds harvested arboreally from large unripe cones of casuarina (Allocasuarina littoralis, A. torulosa, A. verticillata, A. cristata), flies through and above forest canopy with slow buoyant wing beats and protracted glides, roosts in small groups, nests in large tree hollows lined with wood chips, only female incubates and feeds yellow-downed chick, wanders locally or regionally to seasonal food sources.

 

General References

Baird, R.F. 1986. Historical records of the Glossy Black Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami and Red-tailed Black Cockatoo C. magnificus in south-eastern Australia. South Australian Ornithologist 30: 38-45 (distribution)

Clout, M. 1989. Foraging behaviour of Glossy Black-Cockatoos. Australian Wildlife Research 16: 467-473 [Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of delivery of the sheets of the "Proceedings" of the Zoological Society of London, from the commencement in 1830 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440] (diet, energy budget, feeding behaviour and ecology)

Courtney, J. 1986. Plumage development and breeding biology of the Glossy Black-Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami. Australian Bird Watcher 11: 261-273 (nidification, age classes)

Ford, J. 1980. Morphological and ecological divergence and convergence in isolated populations of the Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo. The Emu 80: 103-120 (evolutionary relationships)

Hyem, E.L. 1933. Glossy Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus lathami). The Emu 33: 56-58 [Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp. Waterhouse, F.H. 1885. The Dates of Publication of some of the Zoological Works of the late John Gould, F.R.S. London : R.H. Porter xi 59 pp. [Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp. Mathews, G.M. 1919. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 5 pp. 385–499 + xii pls 363–370 Appendixes A & B (Appendix B)]] (nidification)

Llewellyn, L.C. 1974. New records of red-tailed black cockatoos in south-eastern Australia with a discussion of their plumages. The Emu 74: 249-253 [publication date Mathews, G.M. 1920. Dates of ornithological works. Austral Avian Records 4: 1–27 Waterhouse, F.H. 1885. The Dates of Publication of some of the Zoological Works of the late John Gould, F.R.S. London : R.H. Porter xi 59 pp. [Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp. Mathews, G.M. 1919. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 5 pp. 385–499 + xii pls 363–370 Appendixes A & B (Appendix B)]] (distribution, plumages)

 

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Genus Zanda Mathews, 1913

 

Introduction

Frequently treated as a subgenus or synonym of Calyptorhynchus but treated here as a genus based on results of White et al. (2011)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


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IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NSW, Qld, Vic: Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

General References

White, N.E., Phillips, M.J., Gilbert, M.T.P., Alfaro-Núñez, A., Willerslev, E., Mawson, P.R., Spencer, P.B.S. & Bunce, M. 2011. The evolutionary history of cockatoos (Aves: Psittaciformes: Cacatuidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59: 615-622

 

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Species Zanda baudinii Lear, 1832

CAVS: 0266

Baudin's Black-Cockatoo, Long-billed Black-cockatoo

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Extreme SW Australia, north to Darling Range (to latitude of Perth) and in south east to Albany.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, nomadic, open forest, tall forest, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, feeds arboreally mainly on seeds of Marri (Eucalyptus calophylla) in tall jarrah-karri forests, flies over forest canopy with slow buoyant wing beats and protracted glides, roosts in groups, nests in large tree hollows lined with wood chips, only female incubates and feeds whitish-downed chicks, wanders regionally to seasonal food sources.

 

General References

Carnaby, I.C. 1948. Variation in the White-tailed Black Cockatoo. Western Australian Naturalist 1: 136-138 [For publication date Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of delivery of the sheets of the "Proceedings" of the Zoological Society of London, from the commencement in 1830 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440] (systematics, ecology)

Carnaby, I.C. 1948. Variation in the White-tailed Black Cockatoo. Western Australian Naturalist 1: 136-138 [For publication date Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of delivery of the sheets of the "Proceedings" of the Zoological Society of London, from the commencement in 1830 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Ford, J. 1987. Hybrid zones in Australian birds. The Emu 87: 158-178 [Appendix] (synonymy)

Forshaw, J.M. 1978. Parrots of the World. 2nd (revised) Edn. Illustrated by W.T. Cooper. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 616 pp. 158 pls. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Mathews, G.M. 1913. A List of the Birds of Australia containing the names and synonyms connected with each genus, species, and subspecies of birds found in Australia, at present known to the author. London : Witherby xxvii 453 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement also subsequent revisions)

Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Saunders, D.A. 1974. Subspeciation in the White-tailed Black Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus baudinii, in Western Australia. Australian Wildlife Research 1: 55-69 [publication date Mathews, G.M. 1920. Dates of ornithological works. Austral Avian Records 4: 1–27 (cf. Whittell, H.M. 1954. The Literature of Australian Birds: a History and Bibliography of Australian Ornithology. Perth : Paterson Brokensha xi 116 788 pp. [288]; Meyer de Schauensee, R. 1957. On some avian types, principally Gould's, in the collection of the Academy. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 109: 123–246)] (systematics, feeding)

Saunders, D.A. 1974. Subspeciation in the White-tailed Black Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus baudinii, in Western Australia. Australian Wildlife Research 1: 55-69 [publication date Mathews, G.M. 1920. Dates of ornithological works. Austral Avian Records 4: 1–27 (cf. Whittell, H.M. 1954. The Literature of Australian Birds: a History and Bibliography of Australian Ornithology. Perth : Paterson Brokensha xi 116 788 pp. [288]; Meyer de Schauensee, R. 1957. On some avian types, principally Gould's, in the collection of the Academy. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 109: 123–246)] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Saunders, D.A. 1974. The occurrence of the White-tailed Black Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus baudinii, in Pinus plantations in Western Australia. Australian Wildlife Research 1: 45-54 (diet, feeding)

Saunders, D.A. 1979. Distribution and taxonomy of the white-tailed and yellow-tailed black-cockatoos Calyptorhynchus spp. The Emu 79: 215-227 (systematics, morphology, distribution, diet)

Saunders, D.A. & Campbell, N.A. 1976. Morphological variation in the White-tailed Black Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus baudinii, in Western Australia: a multivariate approach. Australian Journal of Zoology 24: 589-595 (morphological differentiation)

Sibley, C.G. & Monroe, B.L., Jr 1990. Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World. New Haven : Yale University Press xxiv 1111 pp. (synonymy)

Wolters, H.E. 1975. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey Lief. 1, 1-80 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

 

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Species Zanda funerea (Shaw, 1794)

CAVS: 0267

Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria


IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, Qld, Vic: Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET)

General References

Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Courtney, J. 1986. Age-related colour changes and behaviour in the northern Funereal Black-Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus funereus funereus. Bird Watcher 11: 137-145 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Forshaw, J.M. 1981. Australian Parrots. 2nd (revised) Edn. Illustrated by W.T. Cooper. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 312 pp. 56 pls. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement also most subsequent revisions)

Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Saunders, D.A. 1979. Distribution and taxonomy of the white-tailed and yellow-tailed black-cockatoos Calyptorhynchus spp. The Emu 79: 215-227 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

 

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Subspecies Zanda funerea funerea (Shaw, 1794)

CAVS: 8864

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Generic Combinations

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria


Extra Distribution Information

Coastal SE Australia, north to Drummond, Expedition and Dawes Ranges and Fraser Is., QLD, south to all Gippsland, VIC, at least to head of Port Phillip Bay, and inland to inner western slopes of Great Dividing Range (as far as Pilliga Scrub, NSW). Probably intergrades with C. f. whitei Mathews, 1912, in S VIC westwards of Port Phillip Bay.


IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Flinders (FLI), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, nomadic, open forest, tall forest, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, feeds arboreally primarily on wood-boring larvae of cossid moths and cerambycid beetles, and also seeds of proteads (for example, Banksia) and exotic conifers, flies over forest canopy with slow buoyant wing beats and protracted glides, roosts in small groups, nests in large tree hollows lined with wood chips, female alone broods and feeds yellow-downed chicks, wanders regionally to seasonal food sources.

 

General References

Courtney, J. 1986. Age-related colour changes and behaviour in the northern Funereal Black-Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus funereus funereus. Bird Watcher 11: 137-145 (plumages)

McInnes, R.S. & Carne, P.B. 1978. Predation of cossid moth larvae by Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos causing losses in plantations of Eucalyptus grandis in north coastal New South Wales. Australian Wildlife Research 5: 101-121 (feeding, diet)

Mills, K. 1987. Variation in numbers of Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos in central coastal New South Wales. Australian Bird Watcher 12: 8-14 (status, movements)

Saunders, D.A. 1979. Distribution and taxonomy of the white-tailed and yellow-tailed black-cockatoos Calyptorhynchus spp. The Emu 79: 215-227 (distribution, diet, voice, systematics)

Simpson, K.N.G. 1972. Feeding of the Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo on cossid moth larvae inhabiting Acacia species. Victorian Naturalist 89: 32-40 (diet)

 

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Subspecies Zanda funerea whiteae Mathews, 1912

CAVS: 8866

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria


Extra Distribution Information

The South-East of SA north-west along Coorong and Ninety-mile Desert to Mt Lofty Range, Kangaroo Is. and southern Eyre (not Yorke) Peninsula, and east to W VIC and Grampians. Present and probably intergrades with C. f. funereus (Shaw, 1794) eastwards in S VIC to region of Ballarat and head of Port Phillip Bay.


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IBRA

SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, low woodland, nomadic, open forest, open heath, tall forest, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, feeds mainly arboreally on the seeds of proteads and exotic conifers (Pinus radiata), flies over forest canopy with slow buoyant wing beats and protracted glides, roosts in small to large groups, nests in large tree hollows lined with wood chips, female alone broods and feeds yellow-downed chicks, wanders regionally to seasonal food sources.

 

General References

Possingham, H.P 1986. The Funereal Cockatoo on Eyre Peninsula. South Australian Ornithologist 30: 1-4 (status)

Saunders, D.A. 1979. Distribution and taxonomy of the white-tailed and yellow-tailed black-cockatoos Calyptorhynchus spp. The Emu 79: 215-227 (distribution, diet, systematics—under C. f. xanthanotus Gould, 1838)

Whatmough, R.J. 1984. Breeding of the Funereal Cockatoo in Cleland Conservation Park. South Australian Ornithologist 29: 108 (nidification)

 

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Subspecies Zanda funerea xanthanota Gould, 1838

CAVS: 8865

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania


Extra Distribution Information

All TAS, King Is. and Furneaux group.


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IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, low woodland, nomadic, open forest, tall forest, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, feeds arboreally mainly on wood-boring larvae of cossid moths and cerambycid beetles, also seeds of proteads and conifers, flies above forest canopy with slow buoyant wing beats and protracted glides, roosts in small groups, nests in large hollows lined with wood chips, female alone broods and feeds yellow-downed chicks, wanders locally and regionally to seasonal food sources.

 

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Species Zanda latirostris Carnaby, 1948

CAVS: 0794

Carnaby's Black Cockatoo, Short-billed Black-cockatoo

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Drier sectors of SW Australia, between 300–750 mm isohyets, in band through inner wheatbelt from Geraldton and Bunbury in the north and west to Albany and Recherche Archipelago in the south and east, avoiding karri-jarrah forests of extreme south-west, but entering that region to feed on plantations of exotic Pinus—erratic on Rottnest Is.


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IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, low open woodland, low woodland, nomadic, open forest, open heath, open scrub, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, feeds arboreally and near ground mainly on seeds of proteads and conifers, flies over forest and woodland with slow buoyant wing beats and protracted glides, roosts in groups, nests in large tree hollows lined with wood chips, female alone broods and feeds whitish-downed chicks, wanders regionally to seasonal food sources.

 

General References

Carnaby, I.C. 1948. Variation in the White-tailed Black Cockatoo. Western Australian Naturalist 1: 136-138 [For publication date Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of delivery of the sheets of the "Proceedings" of the Zoological Society of London, from the commencement in 1830 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440] (systematics, ecology)

Carnaby, I.C. 1948. Variation in the White-tailed Black Cockatoo. Western Australian Naturalist 1: 136-138 [For publication date Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of delivery of the sheets of the "Proceedings" of the Zoological Society of London, from the commencement in 1830 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Forshaw, J.M. 1981. Australian Parrots. 2nd (revised) Edn. Illustrated by W.T. Cooper. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 312 pp. 56 pls. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Mathews, G.M. 1913. A List of the Birds of Australia containing the names and synonyms connected with each genus, species, and subspecies of birds found in Australia, at present known to the author. London : Witherby xxvii 453 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement and subsequent revisions)

Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Saunders, D.A. 1974. Subspeciation in the White-tailed Black Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus baudinii, in Western Australia. Australian Wildlife Research 1: 55-69 [publication date Mathews, G.M. 1920. Dates of ornithological works. Austral Avian Records 4: 1–27 (cf. Whittell, H.M. 1954. The Literature of Australian Birds: a History and Bibliography of Australian Ornithology. Perth : Paterson Brokensha xi 116 788 pp. [288]; Meyer de Schauensee, R. 1957. On some avian types, principally Gould's, in the collection of the Academy. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 109: 123–246)] (systematics, diet)

Saunders, D.A. 1974. Subspeciation in the White-tailed Black Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus baudinii, in Western Australia. Australian Wildlife Research 1: 55-69 [publication date Mathews, G.M. 1920. Dates of ornithological works. Austral Avian Records 4: 1–27 (cf. Whittell, H.M. 1954. The Literature of Australian Birds: a History and Bibliography of Australian Ornithology. Perth : Paterson Brokensha xi 116 788 pp. [288]; Meyer de Schauensee, R. 1957. On some avian types, principally Gould's, in the collection of the Academy. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 109: 123–246)] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Saunders, D.A. 1974. The function of displays in the breeding of the White-tailed Black Cockatoo. The Emu 74: 43-46 (behaviour)

Saunders, D.A. 1974. The occurrence of the White-tailed Black Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus baudinii, in Pinus plantations in Western Australia. Australian Wildlife Research 1: 45-54 (diet, feeding)

Saunders, D.A. 1976. Breeding of the White-tailed Black Cockatoo in captivity. Western Australian Naturalist 13: 171-172 (nidification)

Saunders, D.A. 1977. The effect of agricultural clearing on the breeding success of the White-tailed Black Cockatoo. The Emu 77: 180-184 (breeding ecology)

Saunders, D.A. 1979. Distribution and taxonomy of the white-tailed and yellow-tailed black-cockatoos Calyptorhynchus spp. The Emu 79: 215-227 (systematics, morphology, distribution, feeding)

Saunders, D.A. 1979. The availability of tree hollows for use as nest sites by White-tailed Black Cockatoos. Australian Wildlife Research 6: 205-216 (nidification)

Saunders, D.A. 1980. Food and movements of the short-billed form of the White-tailed Black Cockatoo. Australian Wildlife Research 7: 257-269 [Richmond, C.W. 1900. Some necessary changes in nomenclature. Auk ns 17: 178–179; Mathews, G.M. 1927. Points of nomenclature. Emu 26: 222–224 Sherborn, C.D. 1895. On the dates of Shaw and Nodder's 'Naturalist's Miscellany'. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 15: 375–376; Mathews, G.M. 1926. An important date. Emu 26: 148 [Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp.] (diet, movements)

Saunders, D.A. 1982. The breeding behaviour and biology of the short-billed form of the White-tailed Black Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus funereus. Ibis 124: 422-455 (general biology, nidification)

Saunders, D.A. 1983. Vocal repertoire and individual vocal recognition in the short-billed white-tailed Black Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus funereus latirostris Carnaby. Australian Wildlife Research 10: 527-536 (voice, behaviour)

Saunders, D.A. 1986. Breeding season, nesting success and nesting growth in Carnaby's Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus funereus latirostris, over 16 years at Coomallo Creek, and a method for assessing the viability of populations in other areas. Australian Wildlife Research 13: 261-273 [Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of delivery of the sheets of the "Proceedings" of the Zoological Society of London, from the commencement in 1830 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440] (status, ontogeny, population viability)

Saunders, D.A. & Campbell, N.A. 1976. Morphological variation in the White-tailed Black Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus baudinii, in Western Australia: a multivariate approach. Australian Journal of Zoology 24: 589-595 (systematics)

Schodde, R. in Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1997. Aves (Columbidae to Coraciidae). In, Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 37.2 xiii 440 pp. [87] (for new status assignment as species, based on Saunders (1979) for specific separation from C. baudinii Lear, 1832, and on Adams et al. (1984: Fig. 2) for specific separation from C. funereus (Shaw, 1794); also Sibley & Munroe (1990))

Wolters, H.E. 1975–1982. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey xx 745 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

 

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Subfamily Cacatuinae

General References

Joseph, L., Toon, A., Schirtzinger, E.E., Wright, T.F. & Schodde, R. 2012. A revised nomenclature and classification for family-group taxa of parrots (Psittaciformes). Zootaxa 3205: 26-42 (revised classification, with Microglossinae reduced to status of tribe within Cacatuinae)

 

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Tribe Microglossini

General References

Joseph, L., Toon, A., Schirtzinger, E.E., Wright, T.F. & Schodde, R. 2012. A revised nomenclature and classification for family-group taxa of parrots (Psittaciformes). Zootaxa 3205: 26-42 (revised classification, with Microglossinae reduced to status of tribe within Cacatuinae)

 

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Genus Probosciger Kuhl, 1820

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

New Guinea and adjacent islands, including Aru and Misool.


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IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Distribution References

General References

Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. (synonymy)

Salvadori, T. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots. London : British Museum Vol. 20 xvii 658 pp. XVIII pls. (synonymy)

White, N.E., Phillips, M.J., Gilbert, M.T.P., Alfaro-Núñez, A., Willerslev, E., Mawson, P.R., Spencer, P.B.S. & Bunce, M. 2011. The evolutionary history of cockatoos (Aves: Psittaciformes: Cacatuidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59: 615-622 ("…resolve the phylogenetic placements of the Palm Cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus), Galah (Eolophus roseicapillus), Gang-gang Cockatoo (Callocephalon fimbriatum)")

 

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Species Probosciger aterrimus (Gmelin, 1788)

CAVS: 0263

Palm Cockatoo

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Details of nominate subspecies, not present in Australia

Psittacus aterrimus Gmelin, J.F. 1788. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Linné, editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata. Regnum Animalium. Leipzig (Lipsiae) : G.E. Beer Pt 1 pp. 1–500 [For publication date Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1833–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84] [330] [not preoccupied by Psittacus niger crist. Pennant, 1781, a junior primary homonym of Psittacus niger Linnaeus, 1758 (=Coracopsis niger (Linnaeus, 1758)) cf. Mathews, G.M. 1916. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pt 1. pp. 1–104 pls 275–282 [publication dated as 1916–1917, 22 Nov. 1916] (82); based on the Great Black Cockatoo from the East Indies in Edwards, G. 1764. Gleanings of Natural History, exhibiting figures of Quadrupeds, Birds, Insects, Plants, & c. Most of which have not, till now, been either Figured or Described.. London : G. Edwards Pt III pp. vii 221-347 pls 311-362 (229, pl. 316), on Le Kakatoës noir in Buffon, G.L. 1783. Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. Paris : l'Imprimerie Royale Vol. VII xii 435 pp. 142 pls (79), and on the Black Cockatoo in Latham, J. 1781. A General Synopsis of Birds. London : B. White Vol. 1 Pt 1 vi 416 pp. I–XVI pls (260); Le Kakatoës noir of Buffon is based in turn wholly on the Great Black Cockatoo of Edwards, but the Black Cockatoo of Latham is a mix of both the Great Black Cockatoo of Edwards and black cockatoos recorded on the east Australian coast by Sydney Parkinson on James Cook's first voyage (=Calyptorhynchus banksii (Latham, 1790)), see Mathews, G.M. 1916. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pt 1. pp. 1–104 pls 275–282 [publication dated as 1916–1917, 22 Nov. 1916] (81-82); although pl. 316 in Edwards, G. 1764. Gleanings of Natural History, exhibiting figures of Quadrupeds, Birds, Insects, Plants, & c. Most of which have not, till now, been either Figured or Described.. London : G. Edwards Pt III pp. vii 221-347 pls 311-362 is treated by convention as representing the type of aterrimus Gmelin, 1788, no lectotypification appears to have been effected under ICZN Art. 74 to prevent confusion with Calyptorhynchus banksii (Latham, 1790) cf. Mees, G.F. 1957. Over het belang van Temminck's "Discours préliminaire" voor de zoologische nomenclatuur. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 35: 205–227, accordingly this procedural point is implemented here; for identity of lectotype, see Mees, G.F. 1957. Over het belang van Temminck's "Discours préliminaire" voor de zoologische nomenclatuur. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 35: 205–227 cf. conventionally accepted designation of northern Australia as type locality by van Oort, E.D. 1911. An undescribed form of Microglossus aterrimus. Notes from the Leyden Museum 33: 239–240, Mayr, E. 1937. Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. XXXVI Notes on New Guinea Birds. III. American Museum Novitates 947: 1–11 and Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia Pt 1 Non-passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp.].

Type data: lectotype whereabouts unknown (no. unspecified, figured on pl. 316 in Mathews, G.M. 1911. On some necessary alterations in the nomenclature of birds. Pt II. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 1–22 [For publication date Mathews, G.M. 1913. New generic names, with some notes on others. Austral Avian Records 2: 55–62]), paralectotype(s) (= type of Psittacus banksii Latham, 1790 (q.v.)).
Subsequent designation: Schodde, R. In Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1997. Aves (Columbidae to Coraciidae). In, Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 37.2 xiii 440 pp. [73].
Type locality: Aru Islands (as Nova Hollandia), see Mees, G.F. 1957. Over het belang van Temminck's "Discours préliminaire" voor de zoologische nomenclatuur. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 35: 205–227.

 

General References

Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. (subspecific arrangement)

Forshaw, J.M. 1978. Parrots of the World. 2nd (revised) Edn. Illustrated by W.T. Cooper. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 616 pp. 158 pls. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Mayr, E. 1937. Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. XXXVI Notes on New Guinea Birds. III. American Museum Novitates 947: 1-11 (subspecific arrangement)

Mees, G.F. 1982. Birds from the lowlands of southern New Guinea (Merauke and Koembe). Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 191: 1-188 4 pls (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Ogilvie-Grant, W.R. 1915. Report on the birds collected by the British Ornithologists' Union Expedition and the Wollaston Expedition in Dutch New Guinea. Ibis 2(Jubilee Suppl.): xx 1-329 (subspecific arrangement)

Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. (subspecific arrangement)

Rothschild, W. & Hartert, E. 1913. List of the collection of birds made by Albert S. Meek in the lower ranges of the Snow Mountains on the Eilanden River, and on Mt. Goliath during the years 1910 and 1911. Novitates Zoologicae 20: 473-527 (subspecific arrangement)

Salvadori, T. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots. London : British Museum Vol. 20 xvii 658 pp. XVIII pls. (subspecific arrangement and specific limits)

Wolters, H.E. 1975. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey Lief. 1, 1-80 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

 

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Subspecies Probosciger aterrimus macgillivrayi (Mathews, 1912)

CAVS: 8856

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

N coastal and subcoastal Cape York Peninsula, south to Archer-Holroyd Rivers on west coast and Princess Charlotte Bay (Stewart River) on east, straggling rarely to mainland, SW islands in Torres Strait—also adjacent S New Guinea(?).


IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, closed forest, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, open forest, sedentary, tall forest, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic (bill), in eucalypt forests and woodlands and fringing gallery rainforests, roosts in loose groups, feeds arboreally on nuts husked from woody fruits, flies above forest canopy with regular cacatuine wing-beats with little gliding, nests in large hollows lined with wood chips, clutch of one, both parents incubate and feed grey-downed chick.

 

General References

D'Ombrain, E.A. 1933. Notes on the Great Black Palm Cockatoo. The Emu 33: 114-121 (plumages, grooming, feeding, voice, breeding)

Forshaw, J.M. 1964. Some field observations on the Great Palm Cockatoo. The Emu 63: 327-331 (habitat, roosting, flight, voice, feeding)

Holyoak, D.T. 1972. Adaptive significance of bill shape in the Palm Cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus). Aviculture Magazine 78: 99-100 (method of feeding)

Muller, K.A. 1975. Propagation of the Palm Cockatoo Probosciger aterrimus at Taronga Zoo. International Zoo Yearbook 15: 108-111 (nidification)

Wood, G.A. 1984. Tool use by the Palm Cockatoo Probosciger aterrimus during display. Corella 8: 94-95 (behaviour)

Wood, G.A. 1988. Further field observations of the Palm Cockatoo Probosciger aterrimus in the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. Corella 12: 48-52 (behaviour, ecology)

 

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Tribe Cacatuini

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Genus Cacatua Vieillot, 1817

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


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IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

General References

Adams, M., Baverstock, P.R., Saunders, D.A., Schodde, R. & Smith, G.T. 1984. Biochemical systematics of the Australian cockatoos (Psittaciformes: Cacatuinae). Australian Journal of Zoology 32: 363-377 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Forshaw, J.M. 1978. Parrots of the World. 2nd (revised) Edn. Illustrated by W.T. Cooper. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 616 pp. 158 pls. (subgeneric arrangement and generic limits)

Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement also subsequent revisions)

Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Salvadori, T. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots. London : British Museum Vol. 20 xvii 658 pp. XVIII pls. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Sibley, C.G. & Monroe, B.L., Jr 1990. Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World. New Haven : Yale University Press xxiv 1111 pp. (subgeneric arrangement and generic limits)

White, N.E., Phillips, M.J., Gilbert, M.T.P., Alfaro-Núñez, A., Willerslev, E., Mawson, P.R., Spencer, P.B.S. & Bunce, M. 2011. The evolutionary history of cockatoos (Aves: Psittaciformes: Cacatuidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59: 615-622

Wolters, H.E. 1976. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey pp. Lief. 2, 81-160. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Wolters, H.E. 1976. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey pp. Lief. 2, 81-160. (subgeneric arrangement and generic limits)

 

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Subgenus Cacatua (Cacatua) Vieillot, 1817

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

New Guinea, New Britain, Moluccas, Sulawesi and Lesser Sundas west to Lombok.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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Species Cacatua (Cacatua) galerita (Latham, 1790)

CAVS: 0269

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

General References

Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. (subspecific arrangement, specific circumscription and subspecific limits in Australia)

Forshaw, J.M. 1978. Parrots of the World. 2nd (revised) Edn. Illustrated by W.T. Cooper. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 616 pp. 158 pls. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Forshaw, J.M. 1981. Australian Parrots. 2nd (revised) Edn. Illustrated by W.T. Cooper. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 312 pp. 56 pls. (subspecific arrangement and subspecific limits in Australia)

Mathews, G.M. 1927. Systema Avium Australasianarum. A systematic list of the birds of the Australasian region. London : British Ornithologists' Union Pt 1 iv 426 pp. (subspecific arrangement and specific circumscription)

Mayr, E. 1937. Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. XXXVI Notes on New Guinea Birds. III. American Museum Novitates 947: 1-11 (subspecific arrangement and subspecific limits in Australia; cf. variation in New Guinea and its taxonomic treatment)

Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. (subspecific arrangement and specific circumscription)

Salvadori, T. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots. London : British Museum Vol. 20 xvii 658 pp. XVIII pls. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Sibley, C.G. & Monroe, B.L., Jr 1990. Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World. New Haven : Yale University Press xxiv 1111 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Wolters, H.E. 1976. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey pp. Lief. 2, 81-160. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

 

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Subspecies Cacatua (Cacatua) galerita fitzroyi (Mathews, 1912)

CAVS: 8879

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

NW Australia, west to all Kimberley Division, WA—east to head of Gulf of Carpentaria (Leichhardt-Flinders-Cloncurry Rivers), QLD—and south to Dampier Land and Fitzroy and Margaret Rivers, WA, the upper Victoria River drainage and northern fringe of the Barkly Tableland, NT, and the Selwyn Range system, QLD—also continental islands of the Kimberley Division, Melville-Bathurst Ils, Groote Eylandt, and Sir Edward Pellew and Mornington Ils.


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IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, frugivorous, granivore, gregarious, low woodland, nomadic, open forest, root-feeder, terrestrial, tussock grassland, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, feeds on ground or in trees on seeds, fruit, shoots and roots, flocks in small to large groups, flies with stiff, jerked wing beats and protracted gliding, nests in tree hollows or cliff holes lined with wood debris and/or dust, both sexes incubate and feed yellow-downed chicks, wanders seasonally to local/regional food sources.

 

General References

Parker, S.A. 1971. Association between the Sulphur-crested Cockatoo and Pandanus. Western Australian Naturalist 12: 23 [Mathews, G.M. 1919. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 5 pp. 385–499 + xii pls 363–370 Appendixes A & B [publication dated as from preface, 12 June 1919 given in Appendix B] (Appendix B)] (feeding)

 

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Subspecies Cacatua (Cacatua) galerita galerita (Latham, 1790)

CAVS: 8878

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Introduction

The information for the type designation of species Psittacus galeritus Latham, 1790 is based on material, since lost, that was taken by Joseph Banks' party on James Cook's first voyage to Australia, see references: to Latham in Sharpe (1906); Whittell (1954); Whitehead (1969); and Mathews (1925). On that voyage, 'white' cockatoos were recorded at Endeavour River, QLD, and probably Botany Bay, NSW, see Whittell (1954). Accordingly, a neotype was designated by Schodde (in Schodde & Mason 1997) to fix the type locality near Botany Bay and so to the population to which the name galerita Latham, 1790 has conventionally been applied—this designation has the approval of the Taxonomic Advisory Committee of the Royal Australiasian Ornithologists Union. For localities from which different subspecies have been distinguished, see Peters (1937).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Coastal and subcoastal E Australia, up to c. 1500 m altitude, north to all Cape York Peninsula and north-west to the Flinders-lower Cloncurry River, QLD—inland west to the upper Flinders River, headwaters of the Thompson, Barcoo, Bulloo and Paroo Rivers, QLD, the central Darling River basin and Murray-Murrumbidgee River system including the Riverina, NSW—south to southern VIC and the South-East of SA, west to Mt Lofty and S Flinders Ranges—also main islands in SW Torres Strait, Fraser Is., TAS (rare on east coast), islands in Bass Strait except Furneaux Group, and Kangaroo Is., SA. Introduced to metropolitan Perth, WA, in the 1930s–60s and established there and in Darling Ranges north to Bullsbrook and south to Harvey (now controlled and declining).


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IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, low woodland, nomadic, open forest, root-feeder, terrestrial, tussock grassland, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, feeds on ground or in trees on seeds, fruit, shoots and roots, flocks in small to large groups, flies with stiff, jerked wing beats and protracted glides, nests in tree hollows or cliff holes lined with wood debris and/or dust, both sexes incubate and feed yellow-downed chicks, wanders seasonally to local/regional food sources.

 

General References

Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp.

Forshaw, J.M. 1968. Variation in the lengths of wing and exposed culmen in the Sulphur-crested Cockatoo in Australia. The Emu 67: 267-282 (geographical variation)

Greenway, J.C. 1978. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Pt 2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 161: 1-306

Kerr, R. 1792. The Animal Kingdom, or Zoological System, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus; being a translation of that part of the Systema Naturae, as lately published, with great improvements, by Professor Gmelin of Goettingen. Class II. Birds. London : J. Murray & R. Faulder xii 644 pp.

Lea, A.M. & Gray, J.T. 1935. The food of Australian birds. An analysis of the stomach contents. The Emu 34: 275-292 (diet)

Long, J.L. 1981. Introduced Birds of the World. The worldwide history, distribution and influence of birds introduced to new environments. Illustrated by Susan Tingay. Sydney : A.H. & A.W. Reed 528 pp. (Australian introductions)

Mathews, G.M. 1913. A List of the Birds of Australia containing the names and synonyms connected with each genus, species, and subspecies of birds found in Australia, at present known to the author. London : Witherby xxvii 453 pp.

Mathews, G.M. 1917. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pts 2 pp.105-516 pls 283-324. [Date published Sept. 1917: publication dated as 1916–1917] [155]

Mathews, G.M. 1924. In Proceedings of meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club, March 12, 1924. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 44: 69-70 (synonymy)

Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp.

Schodde, R. in Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1997. Aves (Columbidae to Coraciidae). In, Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 37.2 xiii 440 pp.

Sharpe, R.B. 1906. Birds. pp. 79–515 in, The History of the Collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. London : British Museum Vol. 2.

Whitehead, P.J.P. 1969. Zoological specimens from Captain Cook's voyages. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 5: 161-201

Whittell, H.M. 1954. The Literature of Australian Birds: a History and Bibliography of Australian Ornithology. Perth : Paterson Brokensha xi 116 788 pp.

 

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Subgenus Cacatua (Licmetis) Wagler, 1832

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Tanimbar, Solomon Ils, Philippines.


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IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Distribution References

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Species Cacatua (Licmetis) pastinator (Gould, 1841)

CAVS: 0795

Western Corella

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia


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IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

General References

Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Ford, J. 1985. Species limits and phylogenetic relationships in corellas of the Cacatua pastinator complex. The Emu 85: 163-180 (subspecific arrangement and specific circumscription)

Forshaw, J.M. 1981. Australian Parrots. 2nd (revised) Edn. Illustrated by W.T. Cooper. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 312 pp. 56 pls. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement and subsequent revisions)

Mees, G.F. 1961. An annotated catalogue of a collection of bird-skins from West Pilbara, Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 44: 97-143 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Salvadori, T. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots. London : British Museum Vol. 20 xvii 658 pp. XVIII pls. (subspecific arrangement and specific limits)

Schodde, R., Smith, G.T., Mason, I.J. & Weatherly, R.G. 1979. Relationships and speciation in the Australian corellas (Psittacidae). Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 99: 128-137 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Sibley, C.G. & Monroe, B.L., Jr 1990. Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World. New Haven : Yale University Press xxiv 1111 pp. (subspecific arrangement and specific limits)

Wolters, H.E. 1975. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey Lief. 1, 1-80 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

 

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Subspecies Cacatua (Licmetis) pastinator derbyi Mathews, 1916

CAVS: 8871

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Northern wheat-belt of SW Australia, between Geraldton, Jurien Bay, Moora, Wongan Hills, Jibberding, Muckinbudin, Morawa and Mullewa.


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IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, low open woodland, low woodland, nomadic, root-feeder, sedentary, terrestrial, tussock grassland, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, in Eucalyptus wandoo-E. salmonophloia woodland, feeds communally on the ground digging for seeds and bulbs, including those of the introduced Onion Grass (Romulea rosea) and cereals, flies with regular wing beats and frequent gliding, flocks in small to large groups, nests in tree hollows lined with wood debris, both parents incubate and feed yellow-downed chicks, wanders locally to food sources.

 

General References

Saunders, D.A. 1977. Breeding of the Long-billed Corella at Coomallo Creek, WA. The Emu 77: 223-227 [publication date Zimmer, J.T. 1926. Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library. Field Museum of Natural History Publications, Zoological Series 16: 1–364 (Pt 1, Publ. 239), 365–706 (Pt 2, Publ. 240)] (nidification)

Schodde, R., Smith, G.T., Mason, I.J. & Weatherly, R.G. 1979. Relationships and speciation in the Australian corellas (Psittacidae). Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 99: 128-137 (ecology of distribution)

Serventy, D.L. & Whittell, H.M. 1976. Birds of Western Australia. Perth : University Western Australia Press x (un-numbered) 481 pp. (nidification)

Smith, G.T. 1991. Breeding ecology of the western Long-billed Corella, Cacatua pastinator pastinator. Australian Wildlife Research 18: 91-110 [Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of delivery of the sheets of the "Proceedings" of the Zoological Society of London, from the commencement in 1830 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440] (breeding ecology, general biology, distribution)

 

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Subspecies Cacatua (Licmetis) pastinator pastinator (Gould, 1841)

CAVS: 8870

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Now restricted to extreme SW Australia, between Warren River, Frankland and Boyup Brook—formerly extending southwards to Albany, Pallinup River and Kojonup and northwards to the Swan River in early days of settlement.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, nomadic, open forest, root-feeder, sedentary, terrestrial, tussock grassland, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, in fields cleared of Eucalyptus marginata-E. calophylla forest, feeds communally on the ground digging for seeds and bulbs, now principally those of the introduced Onion Grass (Romulea rosea) and also cereals, flocks in small to moderate-sized groups, flies with regular wing beats and frequent gliding, nests in tree hollows lined with wood debris, both parents incubate and feed yellow-downed chicks, wanders locally to food sources.

 

General References

Carter, T. 1912. Notes on Licmetis pastinator (Western Long-billed Cockatoo). Ibis 9 6: 627-634 (general biology)

ICZN 2012. Opinion 2293 (Case 3482) Psittacus tenuirostris Kuhl, 1820 and Licmeris pastinator Gould, 1841 (currently Cacatua tenuirostris and Cacatua pastinator; Aves, Psittaciformes): usage conserved by designation of a neotype for Psittacus tenuirostris Kuhl, 1820. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 69(1): 75-76 (use of name conserved by designation of neotype for Psittacus tenuirostris Kuhl, 1820)

Schodde, R., Smith, G.T., Mason, I.J. & Weatherly, R.G. 1979. Relationships and speciation in the Australian corellas (Psittacidae). Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 99: 128-137 (ecology of distribution)

 

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Species Cacatua (Licmetis) sanguinea Gould, 1843

CAVS: 0271

Little Corella

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

General References

Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Ford, J. 1985. Species limits and phylogenetic relationships in corellas of the Cacatua pastinator complex. The Emu 85: 163-180 (subspecific arrangement and specific circumscription)

Forshaw, J.M. 1978. Parrots of the World. 2nd (revised) Edn. Illustrated by W.T. Cooper. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 616 pp. 158 pls. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Forshaw, J.M. 1981. Australian Parrots. 2nd (revised) Edn. Illustrated by W.T. Cooper. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 312 pp. 56 pls. (subspecific arrangement and subspecific Australian limits)

Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement also subsequent revisions)

Mees, G.F. 1961. An annotated catalogue of a collection of bird-skins from West Pilbara, Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 44: 97-143 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. (subspecific arrangement and specific Australian limits)

Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Salvadori, T. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots. London : British Museum Vol. 20 xvii 658 pp. XVIII pls. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Schodde, R., Smith, G.T., Mason, I.J. & Weatherly, R.G. 1979. Relationships and speciation in the Australian corellas (Psittacidae). Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 99: 128-137 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Sibley, C.G. & Monroe, B.L., Jr 1990. Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World. New Haven : Yale University Press xxiv 1111 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Wolters, H.E. 1975. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey Lief. 1, 1-80 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

 

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Subspecies Cacatua (Licmetis) sanguinea gymnopis Sclater, 1871

CAVS: 8873

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Disjunct in two widespread populations in arid coastal-subcoastal west and arid inland E Australia—western population throughout Pilbara, WA, north to southern fringes of Great Sandy Desert (Port Hedland-Rudall River), east to western fringes of Gibson Desert, Lake Carnegie and Lake Barlee, formerly south to the Murchison River during earlier settlement, and now spreading south almost to the northern catchments of the Swan-Avon River, WA, (Moora-Jurien)—eastern population centred in Lake Eyre, Bulloo and W Murray-Darling basins, north to the Barkly Tableland, Selwyn Range, and headwaters of the SE Gulf of Carpentaria drainage (Richmond-Hughenden-Prairie), QLD, east to the westernmost outliers of the Great Dividing Range, sporadically reaching the Burdekin-Suttor and Dawson-Mackenzie Rivers catchments, Darling Downs and even coast in central and SE QLD, and Riverina, NSW, spreading south since 1960s into central and NE VIC north of the Great Dividing Range and adjacent mallee lands of SA as far as the South-East of SA, and west to the Mt Lofty-Flinders Ranges, SA, the west catchments of Lakes Eyre and Torrens and around the fringes of the Strzelecki and Simpson Deserts to east margins of Sandover Desert, NT, and now becoming established on upper Eyre Peninsula and Kangaroo Is., SA. Probably introduced populations established at mouth of Gawler River, SA, since 1940–50s, and on NSW central and NE coast and around metropolitan Sydney and Perth since 1960s, rare visitor to TAS midlands. Probably intergrades with C. s. normantoni (Mathews, 1917) at northern limits around south-eastern head of Gulf of Carpentaria—but evidence lacking.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, low open shrubland, low open woodland, low woodland, nomadic, root-feeder, sedentary, terrestrial, tussock grassland, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, feeds communally on the ground on seeds including cereals, flocks in small to huge groups, flies with regular wing beats and frequent gliding, nests in tree hollows lined with wood debris, both parents incubate and feed yellow-downed chicks, wanders locally or regionally to food sources.

 

General References

Beardsell, C.M. & Emison, W.B. 1985. The Little Corella in the South-East of South Australia. South Australian Ornithologist 29: 206-207 (distribution)

Boehm, E.F. 1960. Little Corella in southern South Australia. The Emu 60: 67-68 [publication date Mathews, G.M. 1920. Dates of ornithological works. Austral Avian Records 4: 1–27 Zimmer, J.T. 1926. Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library. Field Museum of Natural History Publications, Zoological Series 16: 1–364 (Pt 1, Publ. 239), 365–706 (Pt 2, Publ. 240)] (distribution, status)

Macdonald, J.D. 1974. Name of southern subspecies of Little Corella. The Emu 74: 195 [Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp. Whittell, H.M. 1954. The Literature of Australian Birds: a History and Bibliography of Australian Ornithology. Perth : Paterson Brokensha xi 116 788 pp.] (typification)

Parker, S.A. 1970. Critical notes on the status of some Northern Territory birds. South Australian Ornithologist 25: 115-125 [Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1833–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84] (centralian distribution)

Schodde, R., Smith, G.T., Mason, I.J. & Weatherly, R.G. 1979. Relationships and speciation in the Australian corellas (Psittacidae). Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 99: 128-137 (geographical variation, range, systematics, nomenclature)

 

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Subspecies Cacatua (Licmetis) sanguinea normantoni (Mathews, 1917)

CAVS: 8872

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Coastal-subcoastal W Cape York Peninsula, north to the lower Wenlock River, and south and west around east head of Gulf of Carpentaria to lower reaches of Norman-Flinders-Cloncurry Rivers drainage system—also Wellesley Ils; probably integrades with C. s. gymnopis Sclater, 1871 south and west from south-east head of Gulf of Carpentaria.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, low open shrubland, low open woodland, low woodland, nomadic, root-feeder, sedentary, terrestrial, tussock grassland, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, feeds communally on the ground on seeds and bulbs, flocks in small to moderate sized groups, flies with regular wing beats and frequent gliding, nests in tree hollows lined with wood debris, both parents incubate and feed yellow-downed chicks, wanders locally or regionally to food sources.

 

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Subspecies Cacatua (Licmetis) sanguinea sanguinea Gould, 1843

CAVS: 8874

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Coastal and subcoastal NW Australia, west to Kimberley Division and Dampier Land, WA—east to west and (?)central head of Gulf of Carpentaria, QLD (Wernadinga)—and south to northern and eastern fringes of the Great Sandy Desert, WA, headwaters of the Victoria River and northern fringe of Barkly Tableland, NT, QLD—also continental islands of Kimberley Division, Melville-Bathurst Ils, Groote Eylandt and other islands off Arnhem Land. Past intergradation with C. s. gymnopis Sclater, 1871 evident around northern and eastern fringes of Great Sandy Desert and (?) with C. s. normantoni (Mathews, 1917) around south-east head of Gulf of Carpentaria.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, low open shrubland, low open woodland, low woodland, nomadic, root-feeder, sedentary, terrestrial, tussock grassland, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, feeds communally on the ground on seeds and bulbs, flocks in small to large groups, flies with regular wing beats and frequent gliding, nests in tree hollows lined with wood debris, both parents incubate and feed yellow-downed chicks, wanders locally to food sources.

 

General References

Beeton, R.J. 1985. The Little Corella: a seasonally adapted species. Proceedings of the Ecological Society of Australia 13: 53-63 [Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp.] (habitat, breeding, seasonal biology)

Saunders, D.A. 1978. Measurements of the Little Corella from Kununurra, WA. The Emu 78: 37-39 (measurements, diet)

 

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Subspecies Cacatua (Licmetis) sanguinea westralensis (Mathews, 1917)

CAVS: 8875

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia


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IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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Species Cacatua (Licmetis) tenuirostris (Kuhl, 1820)

CAVS: 0272

Long-billed Corella

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria


Extra Distribution Information

Plains of W VIC, south to coast, east to Port Phillip Bay (Carrum, Mornington Peninsula), north to Great Dividing Range, Victorian Pyrenees, Grampians and lower Wimmera, and west to the South-East of SA west to Lacepede Bay and north to the Tatiara—also central Murray River system, VIC-NSW, east to Cobram and Shepparton and now spreading sporadically north-east through Riverina, NSW to west slopes of Great Dividing Range, north to the lower Murrumbidgee River (and formerly Lachlan River), NSW, west to about Robinvale (rarely Mildura), VIC, and sporadically south through northcentral VIC towards western VIC population—apparently rare visitor to TAS. Introduced and locally established in S Mt Lofty Range and at mouth of Gawler River, SA, and around Sydney and Brisbane—records from Darling River drainage (e.g., Byrock) are unconfirmed.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, low open woodland, nomadic, sedentary, terrestrial, tussock grassland, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, feeds communally on the ground digging for seeds and bulbs, now principally those of introduced Onion Grass (Romulea rosea), flocks in small to large groups, flies with regular wing beats and frequent gliding, nests usually in tree hollows lined with wood debris, sometimes in cliff burrows, both parents incubate and feed yellow-downed chicks, wanders locally to food sources.

 

General References

Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. (synonymy and subspecific limits)

Emison, W.B., Dugueschlin, P.B. & Temby, I.D. 1982. Management of the Long-billed Corella. pp. 248-254 in Thane Riney (ed.). Wildlife Management in the 80's. Melbourne : Graduate School of Environmental Science, Monash University 346 pp. [publication dated as 1981 Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp.] (distribution, feeding biology, breeding, dynamics of status)

Emison, W.B. & Beardsell, C.M. 1985. Distribution of the Long-billed Corella in South Australia. South Australian Ornithologist 29: 197-205 (distribution, status, diet)

Emison, W.B. & Temby, I.D. 1987. Data exchange-weights and measurements - Long-billed Corella. Corella 11: 27 (morphology)

Ford, J. 1985. Species limits and phylogenetic relationships in corellas of the Cacatua pastinator complex. The Emu 85: 163-180 (synonymy)

Forshaw, J.M. 1981. Australian Parrots. 2nd (revised) Edn. Illustrated by W.T. Cooper. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 312 pp. 56 pls. (synonymy)

Jarman, H. 1979. The corellas in Victoria and the Riverina, NSW. Australian Bird Watcher 8(4): 103-117 [Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp.] (distribution, dynamics of status)

Lendon, A.H. 1970. The breeding of the Corella (Long-billed or Slender-billed Cockatoo). Aviculture Magazine 76: 236-238 [Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp.] (breeding, in captivity)

Mees, G.F. 1961. An annotated catalogue of a collection of bird-skins from West Pilbara, Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 44: 97-143 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. (synonymy and subspecific limits)

Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Salvadori, T. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots. London : British Museum Vol. 20 xvii 658 pp. XVIII pls. (synonymy and specific limits)

Schodde, R., Smith, G.T., Mason, I.J. & Weatherly, R.G. 1979. Relationships and speciation in the Australian corellas (Psittacidae). Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 99: 128-137 (distribution)

Temby, I.D. & Emison, W.B. 1986. Foods of the Long-billed Corella. Australian Wildlife Research 13: 57-63 [Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp.] (diet)

Wolters, H.E. 1975. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey Lief. 1, 1-80 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

 

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Genus Callocephalon Lesson, 1837

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

General References

Adams, M., Baverstock, P.R., Saunders, D.A., Schodde, R. & Smith, G.T. 1984. Biochemical systematics of the Australian cockatoos (Psittaciformes: Cacatuinae). Australian Journal of Zoology 32: 363-377 (for relationships)

Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. (synonymy)

Salvadori, T. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots. London : British Museum Vol. 20 xvii 658 pp. XVIII pls. (subgeneric arrangement and generic limits)

White, N.E., Phillips, M.J., Gilbert, M.T.P., Alfaro-Núñez, A., Willerslev, E., Mawson, P.R., Spencer, P.B.S. & Bunce, M. 2011. The evolutionary history of cockatoos (Aves: Psittaciformes: Cacatuidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59: 615-622 ("…resolve the phylogenetic placements of the Palm Cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus), Galah (Eolophus roseicapillus), Gang-gang Cockatoo (Callocephalon fimbriatum)")

 

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Species Callocephalon fimbriatum (Grant, 1803)

CAVS: 0268

Gang-gang Cockatoo

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria


Extra Distribution Information

Coast and ranges of SE Australia, north to the Hunter River valley, with outlying population on Barrington-Gloucester Tops, NSW, erratically reaching Armidale and Coffs Harbour—inland to inner west slopes of Great Dividing Range, NSW, VIC—south-west to Grampians and pockets in Otway Ranges and Portland district, VIC, occasionally reaching the extreme South-East of SA (Penola-Millicent-Mt Gambier)—formerly King Is. in Bass Strait, from which individuals may have wandered to TAS before about 1920. Introduced with little success to Kangaroo Is. in 1947 and 1956, other extra-limital records are probably of aviary escapees.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, nomadic, open forest, tall forest, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, feeds arboreally on seeds of eucalypts, acacias and introduced Cupressaceae and Rosaceae, (including Crataegus), flocks in small groups, flies with slow, deep, swaying wing beats and little gliding, nests in high hollows lined with wood debris, both sexes incubate and feed yellow-downed chicks, wanders regionally to seasonal sources of food, disperses through coastal and lower altitudes of the Great Dividing Range in autumn-winter and partially retires to higher, cooler mountain forests to breed in spring-summer.

 

General References

Forshaw, J.M. 1981. Australian Parrots. 2nd (revised) Edn. Illustrated by W.T. Cooper. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 312 pp. 56 pls. (synonymy; general biology; references)

Mathews, G.M. 1917. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pts 2 pp.105-516 pls 283-324. [Date published Sept. 1917: publication dated as 1916–1917] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement also subsequent revisions)

Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Salvadori, T. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots. London : British Museum Vol. 20 xvii 658 pp. XVIII pls. (synonymy and specific limits)

White, N.E., Phillips, M.J., Gilbert, M.T.P., Alfaro-Núñez, A., Willerslev, E., Mawson, P.R., Spencer, P.B.S. & Bunce, M. 2011. The evolutionary history of cockatoos (Aves: Psittaciformes: Cacatuidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59: 615-622

 

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Genus Eolophus Bonaparte, 1854

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

General References

Adams, M., Baverstock, P.R., Saunders, D.A., Schodde, R. & Smith, G.T. 1984. Biochemical systematics of the Australian cockatoos (Psittaciformes: Cacatuinae). Australian Journal of Zoology 32: 363-377 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Forshaw, J.M. 1981. Australian Parrots. 2nd (revised) Edn. Illustrated by W.T. Cooper. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 312 pp. 56 pls. (synonymy)

Holyoak, D.T. 1972. The relation of Nymphicus to the Cacatuinae. The Emu 72: 77-78 (synonymy)

Mathews, G.M. 1913. A List of the Birds of Australia containing the names and synonyms connected with each genus, species, and subspecies of birds found in Australia, at present known to the author. London : Witherby xxvii 453 pp. (synonymy and subsequent revisions)

Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement as subgenus)

Salvadori, T. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots. London : British Museum Vol. 20 xvii 658 pp. XVIII pls. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement Eolophus Bonaparte, 1854 included in Cacatua Vieillot, 1817)

Sibley, C.G. & Monroe, B.L., Jr 1990. Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World. New Haven : Yale University Press xxiv 1111 pp. (synonymy)

White, N.E., Phillips, M.J., Gilbert, M.T.P., Alfaro-Núñez, A., Willerslev, E., Mawson, P.R., Spencer, P.B.S. & Bunce, M. 2011. The evolutionary history of cockatoos (Aves: Psittaciformes: Cacatuidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59: 615-622 ("…resolve the phylogenetic placements of the Palm Cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus), Galah (Eolophus roseicapillus), Gang-gang Cockatoo (Callocephalon fimbriatum)")

Wolters, H.E. 1975. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey Lief. 1, 1-80 pp. (synonymy)

 

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Species Eolophus roseicapilla (Vieillot, 1817)

CAVS: 0273

Galah

Generic Combinations

 

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

General References

Engelhard, D., Joseph, L., Toon, A., Pedler, L. & Wilke, T. 2015. Rise (and demise?) of subspecies in the Galah (Eolophus roseicapilla), a widespread and abundant Australian cockatoo. Emu 115: 289–301

Ford, J. 1987. Hybrid zones in Australian birds. The Emu 87: 158-178 (subspecific arrangement)

Forshaw, J.M. 1978. Parrots of the World. 2nd (revised) Edn. Illustrated by W.T. Cooper. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 616 pp. 158 pls. (subspecific arrangement)

Forshaw, J.M. 1981. Australian Parrots. 2nd (revised) Edn. Illustrated by W.T. Cooper. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 312 pp. 56 pls. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Frith, C.B. & Carline, F. 1974. Psittacidae. In, Hall, B.P. (ed.). Birds of the Harold Hall Australian Expeditions 1962–70. A report on the collections made for the British Museum (Natural History). Results of the Harold Hall Australian Expeditions. London : British Museum Vol. 33 xi 396 pp., 10 pls col. pl. map. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement also subsequent revisions)

Mayr, E. 1951. Notes on some pigeons and parrots from Western Australia. The Emu 51: 137-145 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Mees, G.F. 1961. An annotated catalogue of a collection of bird-skins from West Pilbara, Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 44: 97-143 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Salvadori, T. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots. London : British Museum Vol. 20 xvii 658 pp. XVIII pls. (subspecific arrangement and specific limits)

 

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Subspecies Eolophus roseicapilla albiceps Schodde, 1989

CAVS: 8867

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria


Extra Distribution Information

Centred in subcoastal, inland, and arid E Australia, north to the Burdekin River drainage and upper Norman-Leichhardt Rivers, QLD (Gulf of Carpentaria drainage)—west to the Barkly Tableland, eastern fringes of the Tanami Desert and east central Australian ranges, NT, and western fringes of the Lake Eyre basin (Stuart Range), SA—south to Fowler's Bay, SA and all southern and eastern regions from Eyre Peninsula and South Australian Gulfs to Port Phillip Bay, VIC—east to entire eastern seaboard north to the Burdekin catchment, QLD—also Kangaroo Is. (where self-established since 1913), islands in Bass Strait (where very erratic), TAS, and main islands off QLD coast—formerly uncommon to absent in all south-east coastal and highland regions before early 1900s, now widespread and abundant there. Introduced and interbreeding with nominotypical E. r. roseicapillus (Vieillot, 1817) around metropolitan Perth. Scarce and apparently intergrades with nominotypical E. r. roseicapillus (Vieillot, 1817) westwards from Lake Eyre basin and through central Australian ranges (north to Davenport-Murchison Ranges) to E Great Victoria, Gibson and Tanami Deserts (avoiding Nullarbor Plain)—also intergrades with E. r. kuhli (Mathews, 1912) northwards across the Barkly Tableland towards the east head of the Gulf of Carpentaria and through the Burdekin drainage, QLD.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, low open shrubland, low open woodland, low woodland, nomadic, open scrub, sedentary, tall open shrubland, terrestrial, tussock grassland, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, feeds communally on ground and in fruiting shrubs on seeds, including cereals, flocks in small to large groups, flies with deep, erratic wing beats with little gliding, nests in tree hollows lined with wood debris, both parents incubate and feed pink-downed chicks, wanders regionally or locally to food sources.

 

General References

Allen, G.H. 1950. Birds as a biotic factor in the environment of pastures, with particular reference to Galahs (Cacatua roseicapilla). Journal of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science 16: 18-25 (feeding)

Courtney, J. 1993. Comments on the taxonomic position of the Galah Cacatua roseicapilla. Australian Bird Watcher 15: 60-67

Lea, A.M. & Gray, J.T. 1935. The food of Australian birds. An analysis of the stomach contents. The Emu 34: 275-292 (diet)

Pidgeon, R. 1981. Calls of the Galah Cacatua roseicapilla and some comparisons with four other species of Australian parrots. The Emu 81: 158-168 (voice)

 

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Subspecies Eolophus roseicapilla kuhli (Mathews, 1912)

CAVS: 8868

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Inland to near-coastal N Australia, west to Dampier Land (Roebuck Bay) and Kimberley Division, WA (except locally along far north coast)—east to Arnhem Land, NT (except extreme NE coast) and Cape York Peninsula, QLD (except extreme north)—and south to northern fringes of the Great Sandy Desert, WA, the central Victoria-Roper River drainages and northern rim of the Barkly Tableland, NT, and the east head of Gulf of Carpentaria and lower Norman-Gilbert River drainages, QLD. Intergrades south-eastwards with E. r. albiceps Schodde, 1989 through the Barkly Tableland and upper Gulf of Carpentaria drainage to the Burdekin River drainage, QLD.


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IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, low open shrubland, low open woodland, low woodland, nomadic, open scrub, sedentary, tall open shrubland, terrestrial, tussock grassland, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, in eucalypt woodland and open forest and associated grasslands, feeds communally on ground and in fruiting shrubs on seeds, including cereals, flocks in small to large groups, flies with deep, erratic wing beats with little gliding, nests in tree hollows lined with wood debris, both parents incubate and feed pink-downed chicks, wanders regionally or locally to food sources.

 

General References

Ford, J. 1987. Hybrid zones in Australian birds. The Emu 87: 158-178

Greenway, J.C. 1978. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Pt 2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 161: 1-306 (type locality/distribution)

Mathews, G.M. 1913. A List of the Birds of Australia containing the names and synonyms connected with each genus, species, and subspecies of birds found in Australia, at present known to the author. London : Witherby xxvii 453 pp. (type locality/distribution)

Mathews, G.M. 1927. Systema Avium Australasianarum. A systematic list of the birds of the Australasian region. London : British Ornithologists' Union Pt 1 iv 426 pp.

 

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Subspecies Eolophus roseicapilla roseicapilla (Vieillot, 1817)

CAVS: 8869

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Generic Combinations

 

Introduction

The holotype of Cacatua roseicapilla Vieillot, 1817 was collected by the Baudin Expedition (1801–1803); although the stand on which it is mounted carries the reference 'donnée au M. Péron au Port Jackson', where the Baudin expedition put in for much of 1802, both the identity of the type and itinerary of the expedition are consistent with the specimen having come from Shark Bay, Western Australia (Whittell 1954, Streseman 1951). The specimen is further known to be the WA form with grey crustose orbital skin (I.C. Rowley, pers. comm. [in Schodde 1997]), consistent with the name roseicapilla, the original description '… la tête, le cou et tout le dessous du corps rose …', and the figure of the holotype (as Cacatua rosea Vieillot, 1822) on pl. 25 in Vieillot (1822) — see also: Mathews (1920); Mathews (1925); and Zimmer (1926). The holotype is also described and figured as Psittacus eos Kuhl, 1820 in Temminck et al. (1838, pl. 81). The holotype of E. roseicapilla Vieillot survives today as a worn and rather grimy skin in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris (Voisin & Voisin 2008, Schodde 2016).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Coastal, subcoastal and inland W Australia, north to the southern fringes of the Eighty Mile Beach and Great Sandy Desert (including the Pilbara), WA—east erratically to the Tanami Desert and sparsely through the Gibson and Great Victoria Desert, WA to the central Australian ranges, NT (Murchison-Davenport, Macdonnell-Reynolds, Petermann-Mann and ?Birksgate Ranges)—and south formerly to western fringes of Nullarbor Plain and the mulga-eucalypt line (Shark Bay to Goongarrie just north of Kalgoorlie and Coonara), WA, before European settlement, and now breeding south to Katanning and towards Balladonia—still scarce to absent along south coast (Israelite Bay to Cape Leeuwin) and missing from Nullarbor Plain—sight records from S Kimberley Division (Derby) unconfirmed. Intergrades with E. r. albiceps Schodde, 1989 through centralian range systems.


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IBRA

NT, SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, low open shrubland, low open woodland, low woodland, nomadic, open scrub, sedentary, tall open shrubland, terrestrial, tussock grassland, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, feeds communally on ground and in fruiting shrubs on seeds, including cereals, flocks in small to large groups, flies with deep, erratic wing beats with little gliding, nests in tree hollows lined with wood debris, both parents incubate and feed pink-downed chicks, wanders regionally or locally to food sources.

 

General References

Greenway, J.C. 1978. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Pt 2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 161: 1-306

Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] (type locality/distribution for Cacatua roseicapilla & Psittacus eos)

Mathews, G.M. 1917. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pt 3 pp. 217-296 pls 291-299. [Date published 17 Apr. 1917: volume dated as 1916–1917] [226]

Mathews, G.M. 1920. Dates of ornithological works. Austral Avian Records 4: 1-27

Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp.

Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. (type locality/distribution for Cacatua roseicapilla & Psittacus eos)

Rowley, I. 1974. Bird Life. Sydney : Collins 284 pp. [147-149] (general biology, behaviour)

Rowley, I. 1980. Parent-offspring recognition in a cockatoo, the galah, Cacatua roseicapilla. Australian Journal of Zoology 28: 445-456 (behaviour)

Rowley, I. 1988. Moult by the Galah Cacatua roseicapilla in the wheatbelt of Western Australia. Corella 12: 109-112 (moult)

Rowley, I. 1990. Behavioural Ecology of the Galah Eolophus roseicapillus in the Wheatbelt of Western Australia. Chipping Norton, Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons xii 188 pp. (breeding biology, population ecology, distribution)

Schodde, R., Black, A. B. & Fornasiero, F. J. 2016. East or west: to which subspecies does the type specimen of the Galah, Eolophus roseicapilla (Vieillot, 1817) (Aves: Cacatuidae), belong? Zootaxa 4067(4): 489–493

Schodde, R. in Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1997. Aves (Columbidae to Coraciidae). In, Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 37.2 xiii 440 pp. [103] (type locality/distribution for Cacatua roseicapilla & Psittacus eos)

Stresemann, E. 1951. Type localities of Australian birds collected by the 'Expedition Baudin' (1801–1803). The Emu 51: 65-70

Temminck, C.J. & Laugier de Chartrouse, M. 1838. Nouveau Receuil de Planches Coloriées d'Oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon. Paris : G. Levrault Vol. 1. (livr. 14, 1821)

Voisin, C. & Voisin, J.-F. 2008. Liste des types d'oiseaux des collections du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle de Paris. 16: Perroquets (Psittacidae). Zoosystema 30: 463–499

Whittell, H.M. 1954. The Literature of Australian Birds: a History and Bibliography of Australian Ornithology. Perth : Paterson Brokensha xi 116 788 pp.

Zimmer, J.T. 1926. Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library. Field Museum of Natural History Publications, Zoological Series 16: 1-364 (Pt 1, Publ. 239), 365-706 (Pt 2, Publ. 240)

 

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Genus Lophochroa Bonaparte, 1857

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Introduction

Christidis and Boles (2008: 151) recognise as full species, and that arrangment is followed here.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

General References

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [151]

 

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Species Lophochroa leadbeateri (Vigors, 1831)

CAVS: 0270

Major Mitchell's Cockatoo

Generic Combinations

 

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

 

Introduction

Generic placement of this species has been problematic and it is sometimes placed in Cacatua, however the results of White et al. (2011) provide convincing evidence for its placement in the monotypic genus Lophochroa, sister to the Cacatua. Also see also Joseph et al. (2012).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

General References

Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Forshaw, J.M. 1981. Australian Parrots. 2nd (revised) Edn. Illustrated by W.T. Cooper. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 312 pp. 56 pls. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement also subsequent revisions)

Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Salvadori, T. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots. London : British Museum Vol. 20 xvii 658 pp. XVIII pls. (subspecific arrangement and specific limits)

 

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Subspecies Lophochroa leadbeateri leadbeateri (Vigors, 1831)

CAVS: 8876

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Generic Combinations

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria


Extra Distribution Information

Inland SE Australia, north to about Birdsville, Windorah, Charleville and Mitchell, QLD—east to western fringes of Darling Downs, QLD, Lightning Ridge, middle Bogan River and West Wyalong, NSW—south to Griffith, and Wanganella-Moulamein, NSW, and Hopetoun and Tailem Bend in the VIC-SA mallee (avoiding much of Hay plains)—west to the eastern fringes of the N Mt Lofty-S Flinders Ranges (formerly Adelaide Plains) as far north-west as Cordillo Downs and Cuddapan, SA, accidental in Flinders Ranges.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, low open woodland, low woodland, nomadic, open scrub, resident, tall open shrubland, terrestrial, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, feeds communally on the ground or in trees on seeds and also on larval wood-borers, flocks out of breeding, flies with regular, even wing beats with little gliding, nests in territorial pairs in tree hollows lined with wood debris, both parents incubate and feed yellow-downed chicks, wanders regionally to seasonal food sources.

 

General References

Boehm, E.F. 1961. Pink Cockatoo in southern South Australia. The Emu 61: 138-139 [July, 1830, publication dated as 1831] (status)

Lea, A.M. & Gray, J.T. 1935. The food of Australian birds. An analysis of the stomach contents. The Emu 34: 275-292 (diet)

Tarr, H.E. 1967. The Pink Cockatoo. Australian Bird Watcher 3: 50-55 (general natural history; hybridization with Galah, Eolophus roseicapilla (Vieillot, 1817))

 

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Subspecies Lophochroa leadbeateri mollis (Mathews, 1912)

CAVS: 8877

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Generic Combinations

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Fringes of main sandy deserts through inland W Australia, south-west to northern wheatbelt of WA from Murchison River and Jurien Bay to Northam, Norseman and southern wooded fringe of the Nullarbor Plain—south-east around fringes of Nullarbor Plain to central Eyre Peninsula (Kyancutta-Kimba), SA, occasionally reaching its east coast (Cowell-Port Augusta)—north-east along western fringes of Lake Eyre basin to the central Australian ranges, NT (Macdonnell, Jervois, Reynolds and Davenport-Murchison Ranges) and Tanami Desert—and north-west to eastern fringes of the Pilbara, WA (which is avoided) and the south and east sectors of the Great Sandy Desert as far as the Edgar Ranges, Mary River, Gardiner Range and upper Victoria River, WA-NT.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA

NT, SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, hummock grassland, low open woodland, low woodland, nomadic, open scrub, resident, tall open shrubland, terrestrial, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, feeds communally on ground or in trees on seeds and also on larval wood-borers, flocks out of breeding, flies with regular, even wing beats with some gliding, nests in territorial pairs in tree hollows lined with wood debris, both parents incubate and feed yellow-downed chicks, wanders regionally to seasonal food sources.

 

General References

Parker, S.A. 1970. Critical notes on the status of some Northern Territory birds. South Australian Ornithologist 25: 115-125 [Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1833–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84] (centralian distribution)

Rowley, I. & Chapman, G. 1991. The breeding biology, food, social organization, demography and conservation of the Major Mitchell or Pink Cockatoo, Cacatua leadbeateri, on the margin of the Western Australian Wheatbelt. Australian Journal of Zoology 39: 211-261 (distribution, social organisation, diet, feeding, breeding biology, conservation status)

 

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