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- Title
Range expansion of the Crested Pigeon, Ocyphaps lophotes, in South Australia.
- Authors
BLACK, ANDREW
- Abstract
While the Crested Pigeon is widely known to have expanded its range in south-eastern Australia during the 1920s and 1930s, in South Australia's pastoral areas the process began as early as the 1890s, extending into the northern and central Flinders Ranges during the first two decades of the 20th century. Occupation of the Gawler Ranges and other pastoral regions continued through the 1920s with a southerly expansion into the Murray Mallee taking place over that and the succeeding decade. By the early 1940s the species was common in most agricultural areas but its spread and increase in numbers continued into the southern Mount Lofty Ranges, southern Eyre Peninsula and the South-east up to the present day. Only Kangaroo Island and some desert areas remain to be occupied. Factors pertinent to the successful expansion of this species are discussed.
- Subjects
EYRE Peninsula (S. Aust.); SOUTHEASTERN Australia; PIGEON behavior; BIRD ecology; RANGE ecology
- Publication
South Australian Ornithologist, 2015, Vol 40, Issue 2, p45
- ISSN
0038-2973
- Publication type
Article