Subspecies Tyto novaehollandiae kimberli (Mathews, 1912)

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• Tyto novaehollandiae kimberli Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [257] [holotype collected by F.M. House (or his party) on July 31, 1901 on Kimberley Exploring Expedition (G.M. Storr, pers. comm.)—specimen also attributed in error to J.T. Tunney, who was in the Pilbara on the recorded date of collection, but in whose hand the label is written (M.K. Le Croy, in litt.; cf. Whittell, H.M. 1954. The Literature of Australian Birds: a History and Bibliography of Australian Ornithology. Perth : Paterson Brokensha xi 116 788 pp.; 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 629443 ♀ (=♂?)* (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 4485), Upper Calder River, west Kimberley Division, WA (as East Kimberley), (according to G.M. Storr (pers. comm.), cf. Greenway (1978))
  Comment: for identification of holotype and its sex, see Mees (1964: 45, 57); Greenway (1978).

  Type locality references:

  Mees, G.F. 1964. A revision of the Australian owls (Strigidae and Tytonidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 65: 1-62; 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.

 

Generic Combinations

• Tyto novaehollandiae kimberli (Mathews, 1912).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Coastal and subcoastal N Australia, west to King Sound, WA, east to the south rim of Gulf of Carpentaria, QLD, and rarely more than 200 km inland.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, carnivorous, nocturnal, open forest, predator, sedentary, tall forest, territorial, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Randomly dispersed, seasonal/opportunistic breeder, sexually dimorphic, general carnivore, roosts in hollows and holes by day, hunts through eucalypt forest and woodland by night, nests all seasons on bed of chips and debris in tree hollows or holes, the female brooding.

 

General References

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1981. Nocturnal Birds of Australia. Illustrated by Jeremy Boot. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 136 pp. 22 pls. [publication dated as 1980] (habitat, behaviour, diet, nidification, morphology)

 

History of changes

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