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CAVS: 8900

Subspecies Platycercus (Violania) adscitus palliceps Lear, 1832

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Coastal and near inland NE Australia, north to Burdekin River drainage and Gregory Range, QLD—west to the upper Flinders River system, Barcaldine, Charleville, Mitchell and Mungindi, QLD—south to the plains on either side of the Great Dividing Range, reaching the Barwon-Namoi Rivers drainage, NSW, in west, occasionally as far as Bourke and Warrumbungle Ranges, and the Tweed River (rarely Richmond River), NSW. Intergrades with P. e. eximius (Shaw, 1792) and P. e. elecica Schodde & Short, 1989 over rather narrow zone along southern limits of range, and with P. e. adscitus (Latham, 1790) over wider zone at northern limits, mainly between Rockingham Bay and the Endeavour, Einasleigh, Palmer, Gilbert and Norman River drainages.


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, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
    • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, florivore, folivore, frugivorous, granivore, gregarious, low woodland, nomadic, open forest, resident, terrestrial, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, in open eucalypt forest and woodland, feeds mainly on seeds arboreally and on ground, flies in shallow undulations bringing wings in to side of body, nests on bed of wood dust/debris in tree hollows, incubation by female, both sexes rear pale grey-downed, yellowish-billed chicks, wanders locally to seasonal food sources.

 

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 01-Mar-2012 MODIFIED
10-Nov-2020 28-Feb-2012 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)