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BIRD FACTS |
Description
The Barred Cuckoo-Shrike has dark grey back, wings, tail, head, throat and upper chest. The lower chest and underside is barred with horizontal stripes of white and dark grey. There is a dark grey band from eye to bill. The eye is yellow. Juvenile birds are streaked grey brown above and pale below with light streaking on breast.
Other Names
Yellow-eyed Cuckoo-shrike
Size
28 cm
Habitat
rainforest, eucalypt forest, woodlands
Food
fruit, insects
Breeding
The nest is a cup made of twigs, bark and cobwebs in the fork of a tree. The female lays 2 eggs spotted with brown.
Range
The Barred Cuckoo-shrike is found in north east New South Wales and eastern Queensland
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Passeriformes | | Family: | Campephagidae | | Genus: | Coracina | | Species: | lineata | | Common Name: | Barred Cuckoo-shrike |
Relatives in same Genus
Ground Cuckoo-shrike (C. maxima)
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (C. novaehollandiae)
White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike (C. papuensis)
Cicadabird (C. tenuirostris)
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