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)

 

History of changes

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12-Feb-2010 (import)

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.


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), 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)

 

History of changes

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12-Feb-2010 (import)

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).


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, 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.

 

History of changes

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Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
30-Aug-2016 Cacatuini 13-Apr-2016 MODIFIED
29-Feb-2012 29-Feb-2012 MOVED
12-Feb-2010 (import)