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WHITE-WINGED CHOUGH FACTS |
Description
The White-winged Chough is a mudnest builder from eastern Australia. The bird is black with white patch near the tip of each wing. The wing patches are visible when bird is in flight but not seen when wings are at rest. The eye is red and dark bill is curved. Juvenile birds have dark eyes.
Size
45 cm
Habitat
dry eucalypt forest, woodland, scrubland
Food
feeds on ground on insects, other invertebrates, seeds, plant
Breeding
The nest is a bowl shape made of mud and built on a horizontal tree branch
Range
found in southern Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, south east South 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: | Corcoracidae | | Genus: | Corcorax | | Species: | melanorhamphos | | Common Name: | White-winged Chough |
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