Subspecies Ocyphaps lophotes lophotes (Temminck, 1822)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Columba lophotes Temminck, C.J. in Temminck, C.J. & Laugier de Chartrouse, M. 1822. Nouveau Recueil de Planches Coloriées d'Oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux Planches enluminées de Buffon. Paris : G. Levrault Vol. 2 livr. 24 pp. [publication dated as 1838] [text to pl. 142] [holotype figured on pl. 142 in original description under the vernacular name Colombe longup].

  Type data:

   Holotype RMNH adult (C.J. Temminck Cabinet 63 cat. no.1), NSW immediately W of Blue Mountains (=region of Bathurst) (as par les montagnes bleues dans l'intürieur des terres de la Nouvelle Hollande).
• Columba palustris Bennett, G. 1837. A Catalogue of the Specimens of Natural History and Miscellaneous Curiosities, Deposited in the Australian Museum. Sydney : Australian Museum 71 pp. [42] [nom. nov. for Columba lophotes Temminck, 1822].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).

  Secondary source:

   Mathews, G.M. & Iredale, T. 1921. A Manual of the Birds of Australia. Orders Casuarii to Columbae. London : H.F. & G. Witherby Vol. 1 xxiv 279 pp. 36 pls.
• Ocyphaps lophotes stalkeri Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [191].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 615982 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 185), Alexandria, NT (as Alexandra)
  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; holotype figured on pl. 44 and described in detail on p. 178 but not named in Mathews, G.M. 1911. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 1 pt 3 pp. 137–182 pls 34–45 [volume publication dated as 1910–1911; published 29 Apr. 1911], as cited in original description.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Mayr, E. 1951. Notes on some pigeons and parrots from Western Australia. The Emu 51: 137-145 [142]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

All inland and subcoastal E Australia, north to E Kimberley Division (east Ord River drainage), WA, W and central Arnhem Land (upper Alligator Rivers), south coast of Gulf of Carpentaria, NT, and foot of Cape York Peninsula to the Mitchell-Walsh Rivers, QLD—east to east watershed of Great Dividing Range and, patchily, east coast between Cairns, Qld, and region of Sydney, NSW, then inland as far south-east as Canberra and Albury, NSW, and Strathbogie Ranges, Grampians and the Little Desert, VIC—south to south coast between the South-East of SA (Penola-Robe) and Fowlers Bay, SA—and west to around east head of Great Australian Bight (?), eastern fringes of Nullarbor Plain, the central Australian ranges and eastern fringe of Great Sandy Desert to the upper Ord River drainage, WA—absent from central Simpson and Sandover Deserts—established in small numbers around Sydney, NSW, Healesville, VIC, and on Kangaroo Is., SA, since introduction. Intergrades with O. l. whitlocki Mathews, 1912 on broad front on western margins of range from west rim of Lake Eyre basin through central Australian ranges (Everard-Musgrave-Macdonnell Ranges) probably to Great Victoria Desert and eastern fringes of Gibson and Great Sandy Deserts north-west to south and central Kimberley Division.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), 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), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, S Gulfs
  • Victoria
  • Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, folivore, granivore, low open shrubland, low open woodland, low woodland, open scrub, sedentary, tall open shrubland, terrestrial, tussock grassland, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Gregarious seasonal breeder/opportunistic breeder, ground-feeding seed-eater in open, often well-grassed woodland, flies with whistling flap-and-glide flight, roosts and nests in trees, wanders locally to seasonal food sources.

 

General References

Frith, H.J. 1977. Some display postures of Australian pigeons. Ibis 119: 167-182 (behaviour)

Frith, H.J., Brown, B.K. & Barker, R.D. 1974. Food of the Crested and Common Bronzewing Pigeons in inland New South Wales. Australian Wildlife Research 1: 129-144 (diet)

Frith, H.J., Carpenter, S.M. & Braithwaite, L.W. 1976. Sexual cycles of pigeons in arid and semi-arid Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 24: 331-351 (reproductive cycle)

Goodwin, D. 1974. Columbidae. In, Hall, B.P. (ed.). Birds of the Harold Hall Australian Expeditions 1962–70. A report on the collections made for the British Museum (Natural History). Results of the Harold Hall Australian Expeditions. London : British Museum Vol. 33 xi 396 pp., 10 pls col. pl. map. (behaviour, diet, reproductive cycle, geographic variation)

Hindwood, K.A. 1947. Occurrence of the Crested Pigeon near Sydney, NSW. The Emu 47: 63-64 (distribution)

Woodall, P. 1985. Crested and Feral Pigeons feeding on fig-seeds: commensalism, feeding rates and vigilance. The Emu 85: 121-125 (behaviour, diet)

 

History of changes

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