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The magpie-lark (Grallina cyanoleuca), also known as wee magpie, peewee, peewit, mudlark or Murray magpie, is a passerine bird native to Australia, Timor and southern New Guinea. The male and female both have black and white plumage, though with different patterns.
Grallina is a genus of passerine bird native to ... Long thought to be a member of the mudnest builder family Corcoracidae, the magpie-lark and torrent lark have been ...
The magpie-lark is a much smaller and more delicate bird with complex and very different banded black and white plumage. Currawong species have predominantly dark plumage and heavier bills. Currawong species have predominantly dark plumage and heavier bills.
The northern cardinal is the state bird of seven states, followed by the western meadowlark as the state bird of six states. The District of Columbia designated a district bird in 1938. [4] Of the five inhabited territories of the United States, American Samoa and Puerto Rico are the only ones without territorial birds.
This is a list of the bird species recorded on Lord Howe Island. ... Magpie-lark, Grallina cyanoleuca (I) Leaden flycatcher, Myiagra rubecula (A) Crows, jays, and magpies
The monarchs (family Monarchidae) comprise a family of over 100 passerine birds which includes shrikebills, paradise flycatchers, and magpie-larks. Monarchids are small insectivorous songbirds with long tails. They inhabit forest or woodland across sub-Saharan Africa, south-east Asia, Australasia, and a number of Pacific islands.
Here’s what you might not know about the country’s top five most commonly sighted backyard birds, according to 2015 to 2021 data from Project FeederWatch, a November to April survey of birds ...
In Australian Bird Names Origins and Meanings, Fraser and Gray include “Piping Shrike, as formally described on the South Australian flag and coat of arms” in the section on other names for Gymnorhina tibicen telonocua (the White-backed Magpie). [3] In Birds of South Australia, Shane Parker, Curator of Birds, South Australian Museum, states ...