Subspecies Neophema (Neonanodes) petrophila zietzi (Mathews, 1912)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Psephotus petrophilus zietzi Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [278].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 623525 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 1170), Sir Joseph Banks Ils, Spencer Gulf, SA
  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; for its identity, see Cain, A.J. 1955. A revision of Trichoglossus haematodus and of the Australian platycercine parrots. Ibis 97: 432–479.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Coast and off-shore islands of Spencer Gulf and Gulf St Vincent, Kangaroo Is., and Eyre Peninsula, west to Nuyts Archipelago and Denial Bay (irregularly Head of Bight), and E on south-east mainland to Coorong and Baudin Rocks off Robe, irregularly inland around Lake Alexandrina and rare to absent from head of Spencer Gulf—breeds on smaller off-shore islands.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

SA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Ranges (CR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Nullarbor (NUL), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Diurnal, estuary, folivore, granivore, gregarious, littoral, low open shrubland, low shrubland, migratory, nomadic, salt marsh, terrestrial, tussock grassland, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, in rocky and dune coastal shrubberies and samphire, feeds on ground mainly on seeds of halophytes, grasses and forbs, flocks in small groups, flies directly with rapid wing beats punctuated by short glides on in-drawn wings, nests in rock crevices and under rock overhangs exclusively on islands, incubation by female, both sexes rear pale grey-downed, yellowish-billed chicks, shifts seasonally to breed on off-shore islands and to feed on both mainland and islands out of breeding.

 

General References

Baxter, C. & Parker, S.A. 1981. The status of the Elegant Parrot and the Rock Parrot on Kangaroo Island. South Australian Ornithologist 28: 164-165 (occurrence, movements)

Jarman, H. 1974. The Rock Parrot. Australian Bird Watcher 5: 237-245 (distribution, diet, movement, nidification)

Parker, S.A. & Cox, J.B. 1978. Notes on the birds of Pearson, Dorothee and Greenly Islands, South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 102: 191-202 (occurrence, movements, diet)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Mar-2012		01-Mar-2012	MOVED
10-Nov-2020		28-Feb-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)