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Subspecies Geopelia humeralis headlandi Mathews, 1913

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Subspecies Geopelia humeralis headlandi Mathews, 1913

  • Geopelia humeralis headlandi Mathews, G.M. 1913. Additions and corrections to my Reference List, Addenda. Austral Avian Records 1(8): 187-194 [Date published Jan.] [187] [being based on the locality Port Hedland, name emended hedlandi by RAOU Checklist Committee, Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union 1926. Official Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union x 212 pp.; Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia Pt 1 Non-passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp.; nevertheless, because Mathews persisted with the spelling 'headlandi` in later publications, it is deemed intentional and retained under ICZN Art. 32(b) & (c)].
    Type data:
     Holotype AMNH 614612 (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 110), Port Hedland, N WA (as Port Headland)
    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.
  • Geopelia humeralis hedlandi Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [168] [unjustified emendation of Geopelia humeralis headlandi Mathews, 1913].

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Coast of Pilbara and mouths of its major rivers between North West Cape (Mangrove Bay) and Cape Keraudren—also adjacent off-shore islands, including Barrow Is., Monte Bello group and Dampier Archipelago. Intergrades further north with G. p. inexpectata Mathews, 1912 into S Kimberley Division (Dampier Land and lower-mid Fitzroy and May River drainages).


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

WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Western Australia: NW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

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

Extra Ecological Information

Circumannual reproduction/seasonal breeder, ground-feeding seed-eater in mangroves and fringing Acacia-Melaleuca acacioides thickets and tussock grassland, feeds in open areas, rests, nests and roosts in fringing trees and thicket, wanders only locally to seasonal 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)
12-Feb-2010 (import)