Lathamus discolor

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Overview

Endangered

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,911 meters (0 to 9,551 feet).[1]

Ecology: In Tasmania, it is almost always associated with blue gum Eucalyptus globulus or swamp gum E. ovata when breeding. Flowering may be sufficient to support breeding in only three years out of every 10. Most breeding birds are found in remnant forest patches of less than 0.01 km2. They nest in hollows of both live and dead eucalypt trees5. The most common tree species they use for nesting are stringybark Eucalyptus obliqua, white peppermint Eucalyptus pulchella and Tasmanian blue gum Eucalyptus globulus, white gum Eucalyptus viminalis, gum-topped stringybark Eucalyptus delegatensis and dead stags5. On the mainland, it lives in eucalypt forest and woodlands, mainly box-ironbark habitats on the inland slopes of the Great Dividing Range . Critical food resources occur within this habitat, principally nectar from prolific flowering species such as red ironbark E. tricarpa, grey box E. microcarpa, yellow gum E. leucoxylon and mugga ironbark E. sideroxylon, and lerp (sugary secretions from sap sucking insects on leaves5). During the winter the birds are semi-nomadic and visit a network of traditional sites in reaction to flowering events and lerp availability4. Its habitat use varies between years, depending on climatic conditions and the resulting food availability5. However it will also repeatedly use the same sites between years and often remain in winter foraging habitats for extended periods within a season5. In some years, urban landscapes containing indigenous or non-local flowering eucalypts are also readily used2. The importance of larger trees as a food source has been shown in this species's breeding range3 and wintering range4, as such trees tend to offer a more reliable and abundant source of nectar.

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List of Habitats:

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.4     Forest - Temperate   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.2     Artificial/Terrestrial - Pastureland   
  
•     14.5     Artificial/Terrestrial - Urban Areas   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Lathamus discolor (Shaw, 1790)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 23-Jan-2007

Similar Species

Members of the genus Lathamus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species and subspecies in this genus:

L. discolor (Swift Parrot)

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Further Reading

• A catalogue of the collection of birds formed by the late Hugh Edwin Strickland. Cambridge, Univ. Press, 1882. url p. 462.
• A guide to modern science: science and technology in today's world / Barry Anderson. .. [et al.]; consultant editor, Wilson Da Silva. San Francisco, CA: Fog City Press, c2002. url p. 205.
• A handbook of the destructive insects of Victoria: with notes on the methods to be adopted to check and extirpate them / prepared by order of the Victorian Dept. of Agriculture by C. French. Melbourne: Robt. S. Brain, 1891-1911. url p. 183, p. 183, p. 183.
• A key to the birds of Australia and Tasmania with their geographical distribution in Australia, by Robert Hall. Melbourne, Melville, Mullen and Slade, [pref 1899] url p. 68.
• A key to the birds of Australia: with their geographical distribution / by Robert Hall. London [England]: R. H. Porter, [1906?] url , p. 68.
• A list of the birds of Australia: containing the names and synonyms connected with each genus, species, and subspecies of birds found in Australia, at present known to the author / London: Witherby, 1913. url p. 139.
• A study of the incubation periods of birds; what determines their lengths, Denver, Col., The Kendrick-Bellamy Co., 1917. url .
• Annual report of the New York Zoological Society. New York: The Society, 1897- url p. 105, p. 105.
• Austral avian record; a scientific journal devoted primarily to the study of the Australian avifauna. London: Witherby. url p. 107, p. 142, p. 188, p. 194, p. 215, p. 84.
• Boston journal of natural history. 5 1845 - 18 Boston, Boston Society of Natural History. url p. 398.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 123 1961 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 408.
• Catalogue of the birds in the Museum Asiatic Society / by Edward Blyth. Published by order of the society. Calcutta: J. Thomas, 1849. url p. 376.
• Catalogue of the specimens illustrating the osteology of vertebrated animals, recent and extinct, contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. London, 1891. url p. 261, p. 262.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 167.
• Checklist of CITES Species CITES, WCMC url p. 170, p. 198.
• Checklist of CITES Species: a reference to the appendices to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora CITES url p. 189, p. 223.
• Checklist of birds listed in the CITES appendices and in EC Regulation 338/97 JNCC url p. 123.
• Companion to Gould's Handbook; or, Synopsis of the birds of Australia. Containing nearly one-third of the whole, or about 220 examples, for the most part from the original drawings. 2 1877 Brisbane, Thorne & Greenwell, 1877. url p. , p. IV.
• Descriptive catalogue of the nests & eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania. Sydney, F. W. White, Printer.1889. url , .
• Handbook to The birds of Australia. By John Gould. LondonPub. by the author, 1865. url p. 90, p. 90.
• Hardwicke's science-gossip: an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature. London: Robert Hardwicke, 1866- url p. 62.
• List of the specimens of birds in the collection of the British Museum / [by G. R. Gray.] London: printed by the order of the Trustees, 1844-1867. url p. 63.
• List of the vertebrated animals now or lately living in the gardens of the Zoological Society of London. London, Printed for the Society, 1896. url p. 366, p. 703, p. 703.
• List of vertebrated animals living in the gardens of the Zoological Society of London. .. London, Printed for the Society, 1866. url p. 103.
• Nature. London, etc., Macmillan Journals Ltd., etc. url p. 277.
• Ornithologisches Centralblatt. Leipzig: L.A. Kittler, 1876-82. url p. 115.
• Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania. Hobart, Tasmania, The Society. url p. 110, p. 289, p. 86, p. 98.
• Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. Boston [etc.]Boston Society of Natural History. url p. 271, p. 398.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url , , , p. 1777, p. 418.
• Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland. [Brisbane, Royal Society of Queensland]1885- url p. 124, p. 217.
• Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. Mosman, New South Wales [etc.]The Society. url p. 25, p. 58, p. 8.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 578, p. 579, p. 612, p. 673.
• Revised list of the vertebrated animals now or lately living in the gardens of the Zoological society of London. 1872. London, Printed for the Society, [1872] url p. 204.
• South Australian ornithologist. Adelaide, South Australian Ornithological Association. url , .
• The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History. London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd. url p. 338, p. 338.
• The Australian zoologist. Sydney, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales url p. 365, p. 369, p. 41.
• The Emu: official organ of the Australasian Ornithologists' Union. Melbourne: Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, 1901- url p. 128, p. 161, p. 243, p. 293, p. 37, p. 40, p. 45.
• The Victorian naturalist. [Melbourne]Field Naturalists Club of Victoria. url p. 111, p. 75, p. 94.
• The birds of Sherwood Forest: with notes on their habits, nesting, migrations, etc., being a contribution to the natural history of the country / by W.J. Sterland; with four illustrations by the author. London: L. Reeve & Co., 1869. url p. 159.
• The collected scientific papers of the late William Alexander Forbes, Edited by F. E. Beddard. With a preface by P. L. Sclater. London, R.H. Porter, 1885. url p. 65, p. 68, p. 71.
• The dates of publication of some of the zoological works of the late John Gould, F.R.S. / Compiled by Frederick Herschel Waterhouse. London: R. H. Porter, 1885. url p. 36.
• The structure and classification of birds, London, Longmans, Green, and co., 1898. url .
• The treasury of natural history; or, A popular dictionary of animated nature: in which the zoological characteristics that distinguish the different classes, genera, and species, are combined with a variety of interesting information illustrative of the habits, instincts, and g By Samuel Maunder. .. London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852. url p. 369.
• Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia (Incorporated). Adelaide: W.C. Rigby, 1912-1937. url p. 109, p. 114, p. 662, p. 95.
• World Checklist of Threatened Birds Joint Nature Conservation Committee url p. 106, p. 106.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2006. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2006. Lathamus discolor. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• BirdLife International 2008. Lathamus discolor. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 01February2012.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 09, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 09, 2008:

• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Ornithology Collection
• OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10536
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-177595
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13535947
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 177595
• IUCN ID: 218313
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 5184

Footnotes

1. Mean = 28.660 meters (94.029 feet), Standard Deviation = 45.720 based on 129,197 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. BirdLife International 2008. Lathamus discolor. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 01 February 2012. [back]

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