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

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cacatoes galerita fitzroyi Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [264].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 619590 ♀ adult (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 9376), Fitzroy River, 8 km SW of Mt Anderson, northwest WA (as Fitzroy River, North-West Australia)
  Comment: for identification and locality of holotype, see 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.
• Cacatoes galerita melvillensis Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List to the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 1(2): 25-52 [Date published 2 Apr 1912] [36] [anonymously—authorship credited in Austral. Avian. Rec. 1: 65].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 619595 ♀ adult (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 10887), Apsley Strait, Melville Is., NT (as Melville Island)
  Comment: for identification of holotype, see 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 references:

  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. [92] (from holotype label).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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. [92]

 

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.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

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

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf
  • Western Australia: N coastal

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)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-Feb-2012		29-Feb-2012	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)