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The black currawong (Strepera fuliginosa), also known locally as the black jay, is a large passerine bird endemic to Tasmania and the nearby islands within the Bass Strait. [2] One of three currawong species in the genus Strepera , it is closely related to the butcherbirds and Australian magpie within the family Artamidae .
The term currawong itself is derived from the call of the pied currawong. [13] However, the exact origin of term is unclear; the most likely antecedent is the word garrawaĊ from the local Jagera language from the Brisbane region, although the Dharug word gurawaruĊ from the Sydney basin is a possibility. [ 14 ]
Tasmania has a cool temperate climate with four distinct seasons. The highest recorded maximum temperature in Tasmania is 42.2 °C (108.0 °F) at Scamander on 30 January 2009, during the 2009 southeastern Australia heat wave. Tasmania's lowest recorded minimum temperature is −14.2 °C (6.4 °F) on 7 August 2020, at Central Plateau. [1]
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The clinking currawong of Tasmania has sooty black plumage. S. v. arguta, the darkest race, is from eastern Tasmania [11] and is known as the clinking currawong from its call [15] or locally as the black magpie. [16] Sharpe called it the Tasmanian hill-crow. [13] It was first described by John Gould in 1846. [17]
Regurgitated pellets of pied currawong. The pied currawong is an omnivorous and opportunistic feeder, eating fruit and berries as well as preying on many invertebrates, and smaller vertebrates, mostly juvenile birds and bird eggs, although they may take healthy adult birds up to the size of a crested pigeon on occasion. Currawongs will hunt in ...
Black jay is a common name which can refer to two birds in the infraorder Corvides, of the order Passeriformes: . In Tasmania it is the local name for the black currawong (Strepera fuliginosa) of the family Artamidae.