Subspecies Podargus papuensis rogersi Mathews, 1912

Museums

Regional Maps

• Podargus papuensis rogersi Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [281] [holotype figured on pl. 329 and described in detail on pp. 46–47 in Mathews, G.M. 1918. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 1 pp. 1–112 pls 325–336 [4 Mar. 1918]].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 632451 ♂ adult (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 9773), Cape York, 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

Coast, subcoast and major rivers of Cape York Peninsula south to Staaten River in west and region of Endeavour-Annan Rivers in east—also main south-west islands in Torres Strait (Friday, Prince of Wales, Thursday Ils). Probably intergrades abruptly at south-eastern limits about Annan-Endeavour Rivers with P. p. baileyi 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)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, closed forest, 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 and paperbark (Melaleuca) forests along streams, roosts by day on sheltered horizontal branches or in tree crotches, forages by night more in open eucalypt forest and woodland by flap-and-glide sallying from perches, builds brief platform nests of sticks, both sexes share nidificational duties.

 

General References

Barnard, H.G. 1911. Field notes from Cape York. The Emu 11: 17-32 (nidification)

Draffan, R.D.W., Garnett, S.T. & Malone, S.J. 1983. Birds of the Torres Strait: an annotated list and biogeographical analysis. The Emu 83: 207-234 (correction of migration)

 

History of changes

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