Subspecies Geopelia humeralis humeralis (Temminck, 1821)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Columba humeralis Temminck, C.J. 1821. Account of some new species of birds of the genera Psittacus and Columba, in the Museum of the Linnean Society. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13: 107-130 [publication dated as 1822] [128] [based on two specimens, one originally in BMNH and the other in coll. Linnean Society of London and later transferred to BMNH, see Sharpe, R.B. 1906. Birds. pp. 79–515 in, The History of the Collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. London : British Museum Vol. 2. (414)—only the latter specimen traced there since, see Salvadori, T. 1893. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Columbae, or Pigeons. London : British Museum Vol. 21 xvii 676 pp. XV pls (456); Warren, R.L.M. 1966. Type-specimens of Birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 1 Non-Passerines. London : British Museum ix 320 pp.; name also as incorrect subsequent spelling, humilis by Garrod, A.H. 1874. On some points in the anatomy of the Columbae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874: 249–259; lectotypification effected under ICZN Art. 74(a)].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1863.7.6.14 adult, Broad Sound, QLD (as Broad Sound à la côte orientale de la Nouvelle Hollande).
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH (?lost, institution uncertain).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Salvadori, T. 1893. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Columbae, or Pigeons. London : British Museum Vol. 21 xvii 676 pp. XV pls. [456].
• Columba erythrauchen Wagler, J. 1827. Systema Avium. Pars prima. Stuttgart and Tubingen : J.G. Cottae 411 (unpaginated). [as Erythrauchen; nom. nov. for Columba humeralis Temminck, 1821].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Schodde, R. in Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1997. Aves (Columbidae to Coraciidae). In, Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 37.2 xiii 440 pp. [30]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Coastal and near-inland E Australia and adjacent off-shore islands, south on coast to Hunter River and Tuggerah Lake, with isolated population on lower Shoalhaven River, NSW, and south inland to Cocoparra Range and central Riverina (where range expanding slowly south and west), avoiding highlands of Great Dividing Range south of c. 28ºS—west to Wilcannia, Louth and Narran Lake, NSW, and to Mungindi, Morven, Augathella, Tambo and Torrens Creek, QLD—and north to the N Burdekin River catchment and coast drainage north to Mossman, QLD. Apparently intergrades with G. h. inexpectata Mathews, 1912 at north-western and northern limits across east foot of Cape York Peninsula.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, closed forest, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, mangrove, open forest, sedentary, tall forest, terrestrial, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Circumannual reproduction/seasonal breeder, ground-feeding seed-eater in galleries of broadleaf forest, the edges of rainforest, mangroves and denser stream-side groves in open forest and woodland, feeds in open areas, rests, nests and roosts in fringing trees, wanders only locally to seasonal food sources.

 

General References

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

McGill, A.R. 1968. The generic affinities of the Bar-shouldered Dove. The Emu 67: 290-293 (putative relationships)

Pratt, E. 1973. Progress notes on the banding of Bar-shouldered Doves and Crested Pigeons. Australian Bird Bander 11: 8-10 (movements)

 

History of changes

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