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Subspecies Ceyx pusillus halli (Mathews, 1912)

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Subspecies Ceyx pusillus halli (Mathews, 1912)

  • Alcyone pusilla halli Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [286] [holotype figured on plate 333 and described in detail on pp. 100–101 in Mathews, G.M. 1918. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 1 pp. 1–112 pls 325–336 [4 Mar. 1918]].
    Type data:
     Holotype AMNH 636941 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 1255), Cairns, north QLD
    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.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Coast and tablelands to c. 750 m alt. in NE QLD, north to Endeavour River and south to Broad Sound-Keppel Bay, ?erratically Gladstone—locally on E coast of Cape York Peninsula north to about Chester River. Intergrades with A. p. ramsayi (North, 1912) on NE Cape York Peninsula north of Chester River and through south islands of Torres Strait.


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 and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

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

  • Australia
    • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, closed forest, diurnal, estuary, lentic freshwater, littoral, lotic freshwater, mangrove, piscivore, sedentary, territorial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Randomly dispersed, seasonal breeder, arthropod-feeder on sheltered water ways, solitary or in dispersed pairs, feeds by diving from vantage perches low over water, nests in tunnels in banks beside water, both sexes share nidificational duties.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020 AVES 04-Nov-2020 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)