Species Calamanthus campestris (Gould, 1841)

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Introduction

Inclusion of C. (C.) montanellus within C. campestris, following Christidis and Boles (2008: 182), necessitates allocation of a new CAVS number, since the concept of C. campestris is changed.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), 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), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Chenopodiaceous steppe, low sclerophyll heath, tussock grassland.

Common Name References

Anonymous 1969. An Index of Australian Bird Names. Division of WIldlife Research Technical Paper. Canberra : CSIRO Vol. No. 20 pp. 93. [45] (Rufous Fieldwren, Desert Wren, Field Lark, Rock Field-lark, Rusty Fieldwren)

Campbell, A.J. 1901. Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon. Sheffield : A.J. Campbell Vol. 1 xl + 1-548 pp. [281] (Fieldwren, Rusty-red Fieldwren)

Dickinson, E.C. & Christidis, L. (Eds) 2014. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Passerines. Eastbourne : Aves Press Vol. 2 4, pp.lii + 752. [167] (Western Fieldwren)

Lucas, A.H.S. & Le Souëf, W.H.D. 1911. The Birds of Australia. Melbourne : Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd pp.xii + 489. [303] (Fieldwren)

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. (Rufous Fieldwren)

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