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PIED BUTCHER BIRD FACTS |
Description
The Pied Butcher Bird is a black and white bird with clear flute-like song. The immatures are brown and white. They live in family groups.
Size
32 - 37 cm
Habitat
dry woodlands, coastal scrub, treed farmland
Food
Small mammals, birds, eggs, reptiles, insects.
Breeding
The nest is a bowl of sticks and twigs, lined with grasses and other finer material. It is usually built in an upright tree fork up to 5 m above the ground. Lays 3-5 eggs.
Range
throughout the Australian mainland, with the exception of most of the southern and south-eastern coastline, and the more arid areas of the inland. It is absent from Tasmania.
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: | Artamidae | | Genus: | Cracticus | | Species: | nigrogularis | | Common Name: | Pied Butcher Bird |
Relatives in same Genus
Black-backed Butcherbird (C. mentalis)
Black Butcherbird (C. quoyi)
Grey Butcher Bird (C. torquatus)
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