Subspecies Macropygia (Macropygia) phasianella quinkan Schodde, 1989
- Macropygia amboinensis quinkan Schodde, R. 1989. New subspecies of Australian birds. Canberra Bird Notes 13: 119-122 [Date published Feb. 1989: publication dated as Dec. 1988] [119].
Type data:
Holotype QM 4934 ♂ adult, Tozer Gap, Cape York Peninsula, QLD.
Paratype(s) ANWC 40604 ♂ adult; ANWC 40605 ♀ adult; NMV ♂ adult (D.F Thomson coll. no. 322); QM 4929 ♂ adult; QM 4930 ♂ adult; QM 4933 ♂ adult; ANWC 18207 ♂ adult.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Coastal pockets around Cape York Peninsula and adjacent ranges, between the lower Wenlock River on the west coast and the Stewart River in the east. Possibly intergrades with M. a. robinsoni Mathews, 1912 in pockets around Princess Charlotte Bay.
IBRA
Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
Ecological Descriptors
Arboreal, closed forest, diurnal, frugivorous, granivore, gregarious, nomadic, open forest, tall forest, volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Randomly dispersed, seasonal breeder/opportunistic breeder, sexually dimorphic, feeds arboreally on fruit and seeds in and on edges of rainforest and vine scrub and in mesophyll forest galleries in eucalypt forest, nests in trees and tall bushes, wanders locally to seasonal flushes of food.
History of changes
Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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05-Apr-2019 | Macropygia Swainson, 1837 | 19-Mar-2019 | MODIFIED | |
12-Feb-2010 | (import) |