Subspecies Geophaps (Lophophaps) plumifera leucogaster (Gould, 1867)

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Subspecies Geophaps (Lophophaps) plumifera leucogaster (Gould, 1867)

Lophophaps leucogaster Gould, J. 1867. The Birds of Australia. Supplement. London : J. Gould Part 4 81 pls. [Date published Dec. 1867: publication dated 1869 in vol., five parts in one volume] [text to pl. 69] [based on two specimens; for their fate, see Stone, W. in Stone, W. & Mathews, G.M. 1913. A list of the species of Australian birds described by John Gould, with the location of the type-specimens. Austral Avian Records 1: 129–180].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (lost, figured on pl. 69 in Gould, J. 1867. The Birds of Australia. Supplement. London : J. Gould Pt 4 81 pls pp. [published Dec. 1867, publication dated 1869 in vol., five parts in one volume]), Machrihanish Station, north fringe of Flinders Range near Murnpeowie, SA.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Patchy in pockets in stony ranges from inland north-east to central Australia, north to breakaways around head of Gulf of Carpentaria between Roper and Norman Rivers with outlier in Gregory-Newcastle Ranges, QLD—east and south around fringes of Barkly Tableland and through Selwyn Range to 'Channel Country', QLD (where east almost to Longreach—south to middle-lower Cooper Creek (formerly N Flinders Ranges), SA, and west to Eyre Creek, QLD—and, avoiding Simpson Desert, west to central Australian ranges north to Renner Springs, NT, east to Jervois Range, NT, south to Everard Range, SA, and west to Mann and Rawlinson Ranges, SA-WA—introduction to Kangaroo Is., SA, unsuccessful. Integrades with G. p. ferruginea (Gould, 1865) in west centralian ranges from western Macdonnell Ranges and Ayers Rock-Petermann Ranges to Rawlinson and Mann Ranges.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NT, Qld, SA, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, W plateau
- Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf
- South Australia: W plateau
- Western Australia: W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Diurnal, granivore, gregarious, hummock grassland, low open woodland, open scrub, saxicoline, sedentary, tall open shrubland, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Opportunistic breeder, ground-living seed-eater in stony country with permanent water and spinifex (Triodia, Plectrachne), flushes explosively with flap-and-glide flight, drinks in groups, roosts in coveys on ground, nests on ground.