Black-faced cuckooshrike
Black-faced cuckooshrike | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Campephagidae |
Genus: | Coracina |
Species: | C. novaehollandiae
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Binomial name | |
Coracina novaehollandiae (Gmelin, JF, 1789)
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Natural range | |
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The black-faced cuckooshrike (Coracina novaehollandiae) is a common omnivorous passerine bird native to Australia and southern New Guinea. It has a protected status in Australia, under the National Parks and Wildlife Act, 1974.
They are widely distributed in almost any wooded
Taxonomy
The black-faced cuckooshrike was
Three subspecies are recognised:[9]
- C. n. subpallida Mathews, 1912 – central west Western Australia (central west Australia)
- C. n. melanops (Latham, 1801) – southwest, south, north, east Australia and central south coast of southeast New Guinea
- C. n. novaehollandiae (Gmelin, JF, 1789) – Tasmania and Bass Strait Islands (southeast Australia)
The Yindjibarndi people of the central and western Pilbara know the species as julgira; they would clip their wings and keep them as pets.[10]
Description
Adult birds have a prominent black face and throat, grey plumage, white underparts and a somewhat hooked bill. The size varies between 32 cm and 34 cm. They are slow-moving, inconspicuous birds, with a shrill, screaming call, sounding like creearck.
Behaviour
Food and feeding
The diet consists of
Breeding
Breeding season is chiefly from August to February each year. Both partners build the rather small nest. The fledglings leave the nest after about three weeks of hatching. They look like the adults, except the black facial mask is reduced to an eye stripe.
Outside the breeding season, they like to flock in groups of up to a hundred birds. Some may be partially migratory or they may remain in the same territory. Lack of significant differences between regional populations in Australia makes it difficult to determine where populations move in winter.
Gallery
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Cattana Wetlands - Cairns, Australia
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Searching through foliage in a tree for food
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Rush Creek, SE Queensland, Australia
References
- . Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ "Australian Faunal Directory: Coracina (Coracina) novaehollandiae novaehollandiae". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
- ^ Gmelin, Johann Friedrich (1789). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae : secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). Vol. 1, Part 2 (13th ed.). Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Georg. Emanuel. Beer.
- ^ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1960). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 172.
- ^ Latham, John (1783). A General Synopsis of Birds. Vol. 2, Part 1. London: Printed for Leigh and Sotheby. p. 37, No. 35.
- JSTOR 4080770.
- doi:10.5962/p.92313.
- ^ Mathews, Gregory (1921–1922). Birds of Australia. Vol. 9. London: Witherby. p. 113.
- ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2023). "Bristlehead, butcherbirds, woodswallows, Mottled Berryhunter, ioras, cuckooshrikes". IOC World Bird List Version 13.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
- ISBN 1-875946-54-3.
- Gould, J. 1838. A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and the Adjacent Islands. London : J. Gould 8 pp., 73 pls.
- Mathews, G.M. 1911. Untitled. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 27(171): 99–101
- Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. (Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike)