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Subspecies Eudynamys orientalis subcyanocephalus Mathews, 1912

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Subspecies Eudynamys orientalis subcyanocephalus Mathews, 1912

  • Eudynamys orientalis subcyanocephala Mathews, G.M. 1912. Notes on Australian cuckoos. Austral Avian Records 1: 2-22 [21] [published anonymously—authorship credited in Austral Avian Rec. 1: 65; as subcyanocephalus, corrected under ICZN Art. 34(b)].
    Type data:
     Holotype AMNH 627513 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 1470), Parry's Creek, north WA
    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

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Coastal and subcoastal north Australia, west to Kimberley Division (King Sound), WA—east to Cape York Peninsula and south-east to upper Burdekin River drainage, QLD—inland south to Fitzroy River, Lansdowne and Lake Argyle, WA, the middle Victoria River drainage, Larrimah, and northern rim of Barkly Tableland, NT, and Selwyn Range and Gulf of Carpentaria drainage to upper Cloncurry and Flinders Rivers, QLD—also Buccaneer and Bonaparte Archipelagos, WA, Melville-Bathurst Ils, Groote Eylandt, and Sir Edward Pellew group, NT, and Wellesley Ils, and islands in Torres Strait, QLD—wintering migrant to SE New Guinea.


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, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
    • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
    • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, closed forest, crepuscular, diurnal, frugivorous, gregarious, low woodland, mangrove, migratory, open forest, tall forest, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Randomly dispersed, seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, solitary or in small dispersed groups, skulks in foliage of vine and gallery forests where feeds on figs, mistletoe drupes and other fruits and, to a lesser extent, insects by perch-and-pounce sallying, males more pugnacious and less secretive than females, calling incessantly alone or antiphonally with mated females during breeding, brood parasite parasitizing mainly larger honeyeaters (Meliphagidae), oriolids (Oriolidae) and drongos (Dicrurus Vieillot, 1817), lays pink-buff eggs marked chestnut and brown, migrates south to breeding range Sept.-Oct., the males arriving first and singing, and north to winter range March-Apr.

 

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 06-Apr-2021 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)