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CICADABIRD FACTS |
Description
The Cicadabird is a medium sized cuckoo-shrike. The male dark blue grey with black bill and dark legs. The female is brown grey above with white underside barred with fine black lines, the eye has a horizontal dark stripe through it. Juveniles are similar to females, but with some white streaking on brown upper parts and head, and less prominent eye stripe.
Size
25 cm
Habitat
rainforest, eucalypt forest, woodlands, paperbark woodland
Food
insects, larvae, fruit
Breeding
The nest is a flat cup made of twigs in fork of a tree
Range
found in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, northern parts of Northern Territory, northern Western Australia
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: | tenuirostris | | Common Name: | Cicadabird |
Relatives in same Genus
Barred Cuckoo-shrike (C. lineata)
Ground Cuckoo-shrike (C. maxima)
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (C. novaehollandiae)
White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike (C. papuensis)
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