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Conservation Information
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Australia
The Australian Government Department of the Environment and Heritage (DEH)
John Gorton Building, King Edward Terrace, Parkes ACT 2600. Australia.
Email: see web site
The Australian DEH develops and implements national policy, programs and legislation to protect and conserve Australia's natural environment and cultural heritage. It has formulated a 'National Strategy for the Conservation of Australia's Biological Diversity' and National Objectives and Targets for Biodiversity Conservation. They have produced an Action Plan for Australian Birds (2000), which provides a national overview of the conservation status of all birds (at the sub-species level) occurring in Australian territory against IUCN categories, outlines threats and recommends actions to minimise these. The pigeon species included within this publications are:
Banded Fruit-dove (Australian) Ptilinopus cinctus alligator - Near Threatened
Christmas Island Imperial Pigeon Ducula whartoni - Critically Endangered
Emerald Dove Chalcophaps indica natalis - Critically Endangered
New Zealand Pigeon (Norfolk Island) Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae spadicea - Extinct
Norfolk Island Ground-dove Gallicolumba norfolciensis - Extinct
Partridge Pigeon (eastern) Geophaps smithii smithii - Near Threatened
Partridge Pigeon (western) Geophaps smithii blaauwi - Vulnerable
Peaceful Dove (Torres Strait) Geopelia placida papua - Near Threatened
Spinifex Pigeon (eastern) Geophaps plumifera leucogaster - Near Threatened
Squatter Pigeon (southern) Geophaps scripta scripta - Near Threatened (?)
White-throated Pigeon (Lord Howe Island) Columba vitiensis godmanae - Extinct
The DEH web site also provides a Species Profile and Threats (SPRAT) database which contains information on the threatened species and ecological communities of Australia. This includes (very brief) information on:
White-throated Pigeon Columba vitiensis godmanae - Extinct
New Zealand Pigeon (Norfolk Island race) Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae spadicea - Extinct
Squatter Pigeon (southern) Geophaps scripta scripta - Vulnerable
Partridge Pigeon (western) Geophaps smithii blaauwi - Vulnerable
Partridge Pigeon (eastern) Geophaps smithii smithii - Vulnerable (?)
Management / conservation plans:
National Multi-species Recovery plan for the Partridge Pigeon Geophaps smithii smithii, Crested Shrike-tit Falcunculus (frontatus) whitei, Masked Owl Tyto novaehollandiae kimberli; and Masked Owl Tyto novaehollandiae melvillensis, 2004 – 2008. Woinarski, J.C.Z. (2004). Northern Territory Department of Infrastructure Planning and Environment.
A Recovery Plan prepared under the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
Dr. Fiona Fraser - Partridge Pigeon Geophaps smithii Near threatened
Fiona completed a Ph.D. entitled: The ecology of the partridge pigeon and habitat impacts due to fire and grazing at the Australian National University, Canberra.
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Publications from, about or related to this research:
- Fraser, F., Lawson, V., Morrison, S., Christophersen, P., McGreggor, S. and Rawlinson (2003) Fire management experiment for the declining Partridge Pigeon, Kakadu National Park. Ecological Management and Restoration 4(2):94-102.
- Fire, grazing and partridge pigeons by Fiona Fraser.
Article on the Tropical Savannas Cooperative Research Centre website.
- Conservation status of granivorous birds: biogeographic patterns and environmental land-use correlates and the ecology of the partridge pigeon. Leader: Dr Stephen Garnett, Queensland Environmental Protection Agency, Cairns. Article on the Tropical Savannas Cooperative Research Centre website.
- Pyper, Wendy (2001) Red alert for red-eyed pigeons. ECOS 109:3.
Popular article on Fiona Frasers work.
- Johnst
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one, R.E. (1981) Notes on the distribution, ecology and taxonomy of the Partridge Pigeon (Geophaps smithii) and Spinifex Pigeon (Geophaps plumifera) in Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 9: 49-64.
Dr. Don Franklin - Northern Australian Granivorous pigeons
School for Environmental Research,
Institute of Advanced Studies,
Charles Darwin University,
Darwin, NT 0909.
Australia
Email: don.franklin "at" cdu.edu.au
Dons involvement in directly-related issues is currently nil, but included field work on granivorous birds and an work on an overview of granivory in northern Australia. He does still have some ongoing involvement with possible causal processes, ie. human-induced changes in the composition of the grass-layer in north Australian savannas.
The Australian savannas are home to the Common Bronzewing Phaps chalcoptera, Flock Bronzewing Phaps histrionica, Crested pigeon Ocyphaps lophotes, Spinifex pigeon Geophaps plumifera, Squatter pigeon Geophaps scripta, White-quilled Rock-pigeon Petrophassa albipennis, Chestnut-quilled Rock-pigeon Petrophassa rufipennis, Diamond dove Geopelia cuneata, Peaceful dove Geopelia striata, Bar-shouldered dove Geopelia humeralis.
Publications from, about or related to this research:
- Paradise falters for seed-eating birds by Don Franklin. Article on the Tropical Savannas Cooperative Research Centre website.
- Franklin, D.C. (1999) Evidence of disarray amongst granivorous bird assemblages in the savannas of northern Australia, a region of sparse human settlement. Biological Conservation 90:53-68.
- Franklin D.C, Woinarski J.C.Z. and Noske R.A. (2000) Geographic patterning of species richness among granivorous birds in Australia. Journal of Biogeography 27: 829-842. (It has specific references to pigeons and doves).
- Franklin, D.C., Whitehead, P.J., Pardon, G., Matthews, J., McMahon, P. and McIntyre, D. (in press) Geographic patterns and correlates of the decline of granivorous birds in northern Australia. Wildlife Research.
Forest and Wood Products Research and Development Corporation
PO Box 69, World Trade Centre, Victoria 8005
Email: info "at" fwprdc.org.au
The FWPRDC comissioned a report that examines species and groups of flora and fauna, including 14 species of pigeon, in terms of their sensitivities to logging to help identify species and functional groups that may give early warning of amjor environmental change.
Identification of species and functional groups that give early warning of major environmental change (Indicator 1.2c). Part C: ranked lists of species and groups in terms of known sensitivity to logging. Loyn, R., Kavanagh, R., Catling, P., Smith, G., Taylor, R., Turner, V. and Yen A. (2004). Forest and Wood Products Research and Development Corporation.
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