The pied currawong is a medium-sized black passerine bird native to eastern Australia and Lord Howe Island. },{ "noPingback": true, "loggedIn": false Currawongs are three species of medium-sized passerine birds belonging to the genus Strepera in the family Cracticidae native to Australasia.These are the Grey Currawong (Strepera versicolor), Pied Currawong (S. graculina), and Black Currawong (S. fuliginosa).The common name comes from the call of the familiar Pied Currawong of eastern Australia and is onomatopoeic. 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The nominate race versicolor and plumbea are slate-grey in colour, while melanoptera and intermedia are blackish-brown, and arguta of Tasmania and halmaturina a sooty black. iasLog("criterion : sfr = cdo_dict_english"); Omnivorous, it has a diet that includes a variety of berries, invertebrates, and small vertebrates. { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_btmslot' }}, [14], A softer and more tuneful musical call has been called the toy-trumpet call. [33] The status of the species is uncertain in the Northern Territory, where it may be extinct. {code: 'ad_topslot_b', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_topslot', adUnitPath: '/2863368/topslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[728, 90]] } }, {code: 'ad_rightslot', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_rightslot', adUnitPath: '/2863368/rightslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[300, 250]] } }, [31] The species has never been common in the Sydney Basin and sightings have been uncommon and scattered since the time of John Gould in the early 19th century. "sign-out": "https://dictionary.cambridge.org/auth/signout?rid=READER_ID" It hops or runs when on the ground. ga('require', 'displayfeatures'); bidderSequence: "fixed" [23] The overall plumage varies according to subspecies. They were formerly also known as Crow-shrikes..   intermedia type: "cookie", This is an adaptable species common in a variety of habitats including rainforest, wet & dry eucalypt forest, woodland, farmland and urban areas. },{ }; storage: { { bidder: 'pubmatic', params: { publisherId: '158679', adSlot: 'cdo_rightslot' }}]}, Click on the arrows to change the translation direction. [51] A field study on road ecology in southwestern Australia revealed that the grey currawong is unusual in inhabiting cleared areas adjacent to roads. var pbDesktopSlots = [ type: "html5", The Black Currawong has a heavier bill and a characteristic call unlike the clink-clink call of the Clinking. [24], Birds appear to moult once a year in spring or summer, although observations have been limited. [7] Ornithologists Charles Sibley and Jon Ahlquist recognised the close relationship between the woodswallows and the butcherbirds and relatives in 1985, and combined them into a Cracticini clade,[8] which later became the family Artamidae. { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '346688' }}, { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_btmslot' }}, Black Currawong has thicker bill and dark undertail. The Grey Currawong - Strepera versicolor - is widely distributed, mainly across the southern half of Australia, showing considerable variation in plumage. params: { [6], Six subspecies are spread around Australia. googletag.pubads().setTargeting("cdo_l", "en"); var pbTabletSlots = [ Hiding a checklist will exclude the taxa on it from all forms of eBird output that show a location (including bar charts, maps, and arrival/departure tables), but the observation will still be accessible to you, and will appear on your lists. var pbMobileHrSlots = [ { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '346693' }}, { bidder: 'appnexus', params: { placementId: '11654208' }}, { bidder: 'appnexus', params: { placementId: '11654157' }}, { { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_HDX' }}, Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195465', size: [300, 250] }}, googletag.pubads().setTargeting("sfr", "cdo_dict_english"); { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195466', size: [728, 90] }}, the Black winged Currawong, race melanoptera, from western Victoria's mallee region, can be difficult to distinguish from the Black and Pied Currawongs at any distance. { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '194852', size: [300, 250] }}, The clinking currawong lays larger and paler eggs of dull white, pale grey or buff with a faint wine-colour tint, and marked with darker tones of purple-, grey- or blue-tinged brown, which average 31 mm × 46 mm (1.2 in × 1.8 in). Its head and throat are black, making a distinctive hood; the mantle and much of the tail and wings All Grey Currawongs have a distinctive, higher pitched, clear, ringing, clinking call. [14] The species has been observed bathing by shaking its wings in water at ponds, as well as applying clay to its plumage after washing. The common name comes from the call of the familiar Pied Currawong of eastern Australia.. All grey currawongs have a loud distinctive ringing or clinking call. [36][42] On Kangaroo Island, the grey currawong has been identified as the main vector for the spread of bridal creeper (Asparagus asparagoides). googletag.cmd.push(function() { { bidder: 'onemobile', params: { dcn: '8a969411017171829a5c82bb4deb000b', pos: 'cdo_btmslot_300x250' }}, googletag.pubads().setTargeting("cdo_ei", "currawong"); { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '194852', size: [300, 250] }}, name: "identityLink", { bidder: 'appnexus', params: { placementId: '11654156' }}, { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_rightslot' }}, { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195465', size: [300, 250] }}, [29], Grey currawongs are found right across the southern part of Australia from the Central Coast region of New South Wales, occurring south of latitude 32°S southwards and westwards, from the vicinity of Mudgee in the north and southwest to Temora and Albury onto the Riverina and across most of Victoria and southern South Australia to the fertile south-west corner of Western Australia and the semi-arid country surrounding it. 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