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Species Geopelia placida Gould, 1844

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Species Geopelia placida Gould, 1844

Distribution

States

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


Extra Distribution Information

Coastal to near inland N and E Australia, north-west from Kimberley Division south to Dampier Land, Fitzroy River, Christmas Creek and Sturt Creek, WA, and Arnhem Land south to upper Victoria River drainage, almost Tennant Creek and Barkly Tableland (Alexandria-Camooweal), NT to around head of Gulf of Carpentaria and Selwyn Range to all Cape York Peninsula, QLD—south-east through all E Australia (except heavily forested and cold tableland regions) to Gippsland and north watersheds of Strathbogie, Pyrenees and Grampians Ranges, VIC, and the upper South-East of SA—and west inland to the Georgina River drainage, QLD, east rim of the Simpson Desert, Strzelecki Creek, and the Mt Lofty-Flinders and Gawler Ranges-Eyre Peninsula, SA—sporadic on Bassian Plains, VIC, the west Lake Eyre basin river courses, SA, and centralian ranges, SA, NT—also continental off-shore islands, Buccaneer and Bonaparte Archipelagos, WA, Melville-Bathurst Ils, Groote Eylandt, Sir Edward Pellew group, NT, Wellesley Ils, and larger south-west islands in Torres Strait north to Badu and Moa Ils, QLD, and Lord Howe Is. (vagrant), introductions to Kangaroo Is., SA, unsuccessful. Apparently intergrades with G. p. clelandi Mathews, 1912 from middle Fitzroy River and Roebuck Bay, Kimberley Division south-west along NW coast to Wallal Downs.


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: Australian Alps (AA), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Sturt Plateau (STU) ; WA: Dampierland (DL), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Pilbara (PIL)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, low open woodland, low woodland, open forest, sedentary, terrestrial, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Randomly dispersed, circumannual reproduction/seasonal breeder, ground-feeding seed-eater in well-grassed eucalypt woodlands and open river eucalypt galleries along water courses, rests, nests and roosts in trees, wanders locally, rarely regionally, to seasonal food sources.

 

General References

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. (as subspecies of G. striata, also discuss valid species name)

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

Frith, H.J., Braithwaite, L.W. & Wolfe, T.O. 1974. Sexual cycles of pigeons in a tropical environment. Australian Wildlife Research 1: 117-128 (reproductive cycle)

Frith, H.J., Wolfe, T.O. & Barker, R.D. 1976. Food of eight species of Columbidae, in the genera Geopelia, Phaps, Geophaps and Petrophassa. Australian Wildlife Research 3: 159-171 (diet)

Goodwin, D. 1967. Australian pigeons: their affinities and status. The Emu 66: 319-336 (origin and radiation)

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. (biology, seasonal cycle, soft-part colours, geographical variation)

Harrison, C.J.O. 1969. Some comparative notes on the Peaceful and Zebra Doves (Geopelia striata ssp.) with reference to their taxonomic status. The Emu 69: 66-71 (speciation, voice, behaviour)

ICZN 2009. Opinion 2240 (Case 3418). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 66(4): 375-378 (the name placida Gould stabilised as having precedence over the simultaneously published tranquilla Gould)

Lowe, V.T. 1956. The way of a Dove. The Emu 56: 167-182 (nidification, behaviour, movements, voice)

 

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 22-Mar-2021 MODIFIED
17-Nov-2010 MODIFIED