Subspecies Geophaps (Geophaps) smithii blaauwi Mathews, 1912

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External Links

• Geophaps smithii blaauwi Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List to the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 1(2): 25-52 [Date published 2 Apr 1912] [28] [as Geophaps smithi blaauwi; published without author—authorship credited in Austral Avian Rec. 1: 65].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 616107 ♀ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 5634), Napier Broome Bay, N 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

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

NW Kimberley Division, north to Napier Broome Bay, south to Yampi Peninsula and inland to Drysdale and upper Charnley Rivers.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

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

Extra Ecological Information

Randomly dispersed, seasonal breeder, ground-feeding seed-eater in well grassed woodland, flushes explosively—flapping high and gliding away, drinks in groups, nests on ground in early dry season, wanders only locally to seasonal food sources.

 

General References

Johnstone, R.E. 1981. Notes on the distribution, ecology and taxonomy of the Partridge Pigeon (Geophaps smithii) and Spinifex Pigeon (Geophaps plumifera) in Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 9: 49-64 (distribution, habitat, behaviour, zoogeography, taxonomy)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		20-Aug-2013	MODIFIED