Subspecies Motacilla (Budytes) tschutschensis taivana (Swinhoe, 1863)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Budytes taivanus Swinhoe, R. 1863. Catalogue of the Birds of China, with remarks principally on their geographical distribution. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863: 259-338 [274, 377].

 

Generic Combinations

• Motacilla flava taivana (Swinhoe, 1863). —
  Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. [734]

 

Introduction

Previously placed as a subspecies of M. flava, see Christidis & Boles (2008) for a discussion on the taxonomy of this group.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Migrates from northern Asia, occurs in coastal Australia from around Exmouth, WA to about Newcastle, NSW, vagrant to the south of these limits.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Lignum or cane grass swamp, samphire salt marsh, tussock grassland.

 

General References

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [212]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	AVES	10-Nov-2020	MODIFIED
10-Nov-2020	PASSERIFORMES	01-Sep-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
10-Nov-2020		14-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
		22-Mar-2011	MODIFIED