Subspecies Platycercus (Violania) venustus hilli Mathews, 1910

Museums

Regional Maps

• Platycercus venustus hilli Mathews, G.M. 1910. In Proceedings of meeting of British Ornithologists' Club, Nov 16, 1910. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 27: 28 [28] [for identification of holotype and type locality, 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].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 622995 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 5609), Napier Broome Bay, Kimberley Division, WA (as Napier, Broom Bay, North-West Australia).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Kimberley Division, south to King Leopold Range and upper Ord River drainage, WA, and east to lower and middle Victoria River drainage, NT, where probably intergrades with P. v. venustus (Kuhl, 1820), also adjacent continental islands : Boongaree, Coronation, Unwins, Augustus, Koolan and Cockatoo.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

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

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, in eucalypt and paperbark (Melaleuca) woodland and open forest, feeds mainly on seeds arboreally and on ground, rather solitary or in pairs, 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.

 

General References

Frith, C.B. & Carline, F. 1974. Psittacidae. In, Hall, B.P. (ed.). Birds of the Harold Hall Australian Expeditions 1962–70. A report on the collections made for the British Museum (Natural History). Results of the Harold Hall Australian Expeditions. London : British Museum Vol. 33 xi 396 pp., 10 pls col. pl. map. (habitat, behaviour, diet, geographical variation)

 

History of changes

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10-Nov-2020		28-Feb-2012	MODIFIED
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