Pigeons and Doves (Columbidae)
Brush Bronzewing (Phaps elegans) - HBW 4, p. 152
French: Colombine élégante
German: Buschtaube
Spanish: Paloma-bronce Elegante
Other common names: Little Bronze, Box-poison/Brown Bronzewing Pigeon
Taxonomy: Columba Elegans Temminck, 1810, D'Entrecasteaux Channel, Tasmania.
Genus belongs to the large radiation of Australian bronzewings, which also includes genera Ocyphaps, Geophaps and Petrophassa, and, more distantly, Chalcophaps and Henicophaps. Present species closely related to P. chalcoptera. Subspecific arrangement tentative, and further work needed to clarify the significance of observed variation. Two subspecies currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- occidentalis Schodde, 1989 - SW Western Australia from Dongara to vicinity of Point Culver.
- elegans (Temminck, 1810) - SE Queensland (Fraser I) S to SC South Australia (Eyre Peninsula) and Tasmania.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A male on a roof, singing and flying away. Locality Port Campbell National Park, Victoria, Australia (ssp elegans)
Josep del Hoyo 31 October 2009 2 years ago 14 sec 3.8 -
A standing bird, resting. Locality Taronga Zoo, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Josep del Hoyo 19 October 2009 1 year ago 25 sec 3.5 -
male on ground Locality Cheyne Beach Caravan Park, Cheyne Beach, Western Australia, Australia (ssp occidentalis)
Martin Kennewell 3 February 2011 1 year ago 40 sec 3.4 -
female feeding on ground Locality Cheyne Beach Caravan Park, Cheyne Beach, Western Australia, Australia (ssp occidentalis)
Martin Kennewell 3 February 2011 1 year ago 18 sec 3.3 -
Two bird perched, preening. Locality Vogelpark Walsrode, Walsrode, Lower Saxony, Germany
Josep del Hoyo 12 August 2006 3 years ago 32 sec 3.3 -
A bird on a rock, singing Locality Cheyne Beach, Western Australia, Australia (ssp occidentalis)
Philip Griffin 4 January 2005 6 years ago 19 sec 3.2
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A bird perched.
Locality Vogelpark Walsrode, Walsrode, Lower Saxony, Germany
Josep del Hoyo 12 August 2006 3 years ago 3.4 -
A bird standing.
Locality Taronga Zoo, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Josep del Hoyo 16 October 2009 1 year ago 2.7
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A male singing. Locality Port Campbell National Park, Victoria, Australia
(ssp elegans)
Josep del Hoyo 31 October 2009 2 years ago 3.3
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