Subspecies Podargus papuensis baileyi Mathews, 1912

Museums

Regional Maps

• Podargus papuensis baileyi Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [281].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 632463 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 1201), Cairns, QLD
  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.

  Type locality references:

  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.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Coastal plains and ranges of NE QLD, 0–1000 m alt., north to Annan-Endeavour Rivers, south to Paluma Range, (?)occasionally region of Townsville-Ayr. Probably intergrades abruptly at northern limits with P. p. rogersi Mathews, 1912 (q.v.).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

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
• Indonesia
  • Aru Islands
  • Irian Jaya
• Papua New Guinea
• Solomon Islands

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, closed forest, mangrove, nocturnal, open forest, sedentary, tall forest, territorial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Randomly dispersed, seasonal breeder, general carnivore, in pairs or family groups on edges of rainforest and in vine forests along streams and mangroves, roosts by day on sheltered horizontal branches or in tree crotches, forages by night more in open eucalypt forests by flap-and-glide sallying from perches, builds brief platform nests of sticks, both sexes share nidificational duties.

 

General References

North, A.J. 1909. Nests and Eggs of Birds Found Breeding in Australia and Tasmania. Sydney : Australian Museum Spec. Cat. 1 Vol. 2 vii 380 pp. [published between 1906–1909] (behaviour, nidification)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)