Australian Biological Resources Study

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Subspecies Ceyx pusillus ramsayi (North, 1912)

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Subspecies Ceyx pusillus ramsayi (North, 1912)

  • Alcyone ramsayi North, A.J. 1912. Descriptions of two new species, and a new genus of Australian birds. Ibis 9 6: 118-120 [Date published 7 Feb 1912] [119].
    Type data:
     Holotype AM A4606 ♂ adult, Port Essington, NT
    Comment: for identification of holotype, see Hindwood, K.A. 1946. A list of the types and paratypes of birds from Australian localities in the Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 21: 386–393; Longmore, N.W. 1991. Type specimens of birds in the Australian Museum. Technichal Report of the Australian Museum n 4: 1–42.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Coastal N Australia, west to W Arnhem Land (Victoria River), NT, and east to W coast of Cape York Peninsula (Watson River), QLD, but scarce to locally absent around head of Gulf of Carpentaria—also Melville-Bathurst Ils and Groote Eylandt. Intergrades with A. p. halli (Mathews, 1912) on NE coast of Cape York Peninsula south to about 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

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), 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

Ecological Descriptors

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

Extra Ecological Information

Randomly dispersed, seasonal breeder, arthropod-feeder on sheltered coastal (estuarine) waterways, solitary or in dispersed pairs, feeds by diving from vantage perches low over water, nests in tunnels in banks beside water.

 

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)