Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Subspecies Eolophus roseicapilla albiceps Schodde, 1989

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Subspecies Eolophus roseicapilla albiceps Schodde, 1989

 

Distribution

States

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


Extra Distribution Information

Centred in subcoastal, inland, and arid E Australia, north to the Burdekin River drainage and upper Norman-Leichhardt Rivers, QLD (Gulf of Carpentaria drainage)—west to the Barkly Tableland, eastern fringes of the Tanami Desert and east central Australian ranges, NT, and western fringes of the Lake Eyre basin (Stuart Range), SA—south to Fowler's Bay, SA and all southern and eastern regions from Eyre Peninsula and South Australian Gulfs to Port Phillip Bay, VIC—east to entire eastern seaboard north to the Burdekin catchment, QLD—also Kangaroo Is. (where self-established since 1913), islands in Bass Strait (where very erratic), TAS, and main islands off QLD coast—formerly uncommon to absent in all south-east coastal and highland regions before early 1900s, now widespread and abundant there. Introduced and interbreeding with nominotypical E. r. roseicapillus (Vieillot, 1817) around metropolitan Perth. Scarce and apparently intergrades with nominotypical E. r. roseicapillus (Vieillot, 1817) westwards from Lake Eyre basin and through central Australian ranges (north to Davenport-Murchison Ranges) to E Great Victoria, Gibson and Tanami Deserts (avoiding Nullarbor Plain)—also intergrades with E. r. kuhli (Mathews, 1912) northwards across the Barkly Tableland towards the east head of the Gulf of Carpentaria and through the Burdekin drainage, QLD.


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

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), 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), Nullarbor (NUL), 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), Tanami (TAN), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales
    • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, W plateau
    • Queensland
    • South Australia
    • Tasmania
    • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

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

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, feeds communally on ground and in fruiting shrubs on seeds, including cereals, flocks in small to large groups, flies with deep, erratic wing beats with little gliding, nests in tree hollows lined with wood debris, both parents incubate and feed pink-downed chicks, wanders regionally or locally to food sources.

 

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)
30-Aug-2016 Cacatuini 11-Dec-2017 MODIFIED
29-Feb-2012 29-Feb-2012 MOVED
12-Feb-2010 (import)