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Australia,New Caledonia,New Zealand,Papua New Guinea,Vanuatu,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies
Group
Subspecies
Breeding Range
timorensis
Timor to Babar (e Lesser Sundas), Banda, Kai and Tanimbar is. and intervening is. (s Moluccas)
longirostris
ne WA to ne NT (nc Australia)
rogersi
n Cape York Pen., ne QLD to se NSW (e Australia), Lord Howe and Norfolk is. (far e of Australia), e, se coastal New Guinea, D'Entrecasteaux Arch., Trobriand Is., Woodlark group and Louisiade Arch. (e of se New Guinea)
sandwichensis
Temotu (=Santa Cruz Is., se Solomon Is.), Vanuatu including Banks Is., and Grande Terre and Loyalty Is. (New Caledonia)
Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN
Antarctica
AO
Atlantic Ocean
AU
Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL
Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO
Indian Ocean
LA
Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA
Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA
North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO
Northern oceans
OR
Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
