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CAVS: 8864

Subspecies Zanda funerea funerea (Shaw, 1794)

 

Generic Combinations

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria


Extra Distribution Information

Coastal SE Australia, north to Drummond, Expedition and Dawes Ranges and Fraser Is., QLD, south to all Gippsland, VIC, at least to head of Port Phillip Bay, and inland to inner western slopes of Great Dividing Range (as far as Pilliga Scrub, NSW). Probably intergrades with C. f. whitei Mathews, 1912, in S VIC westwards of Port Phillip Bay.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Flinders (FLI), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, nomadic, open forest, tall forest, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, feeds arboreally primarily on wood-boring larvae of cossid moths and cerambycid beetles, and also seeds of proteads (for example, Banksia) and exotic conifers, flies over forest canopy with slow buoyant wing beats and protracted glides, roosts in small groups, nests in large tree hollows lined with wood chips, female alone broods and feeds yellow-downed chicks, wanders regionally to seasonal food sources.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020 AVES 16-Aug-2023 MODIFIED
10-Nov-2020 01-Mar-2012 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)