Subspecies Todiramphus (Todiramphus) chloris pilbara (Johnstone, 1983)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Halcyon chloris pilbara Johnstone, R.E. 1983. A review of the Mangrove Kingfisher, Halcyon chloris (Boddaert) in Australia, with a description of a new subspecies from Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 11: 25-31 [28].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM A16686 ♀ adult, mouth of Popes Nose Creek, 2 km SW of Point Samson, WA.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Coast of Pilbara, between Balla Balla near Cape Cossigney and North West Cape (Point Cloates).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: NW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, diurnal, estuary, littoral, mangrove, piscivore, sedentary, territorial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Randomly dispersed, seasonal breeder, in estuarine and seaward edges of taller coastal mangroves, solitary or in dispersed pairs, feeds in pouncing sallies from vantage perches.

 

General References

Johnstone, R.E. 1983. A review of the Mangrove Kingfisher, Halcyon chloris (Boddaert) in Australia, with a description of a new subspecies from Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 11: 25-31 (ecology, habitat)

 

History of changes

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