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The Australian magpie was first described in the scientific literature by English ornithologist John Latham in 1801 as Coracias tibicen, the type collected in the Port Jackson region. [ 6 ] [ a ] Its specific epithet derived from the Latin tibicen "flute-player" or "piper" in reference to the bird's melodious call.
The Australian magpie, Cracticus tibicen, is conspicuously "pied", with black and white plumage reminiscent of a Eurasian magpie. It is a member of the family Artamidae and not a corvid. The magpie-robins , members of the genus Copsychus , have a similar "pied" appearance, but they are Old World flycatchers , unrelated to the corvids.
Male (left) and female (right) magpies of Tasmania. The Australian magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen) is a medium-sized black and white passerine bird native to Australia and southern New Guinea. Three subspecies, including both black-backed and white-backed magpies, were introduced to New Zealand from the 1860s to control pests in pastures. They are ...
Artamidae is a family of passerine birds found in Australia, the Indo-Pacific region, and Southern Asia. It includes 24 extant species in six genera and three subfamilies: Peltopsinae (with one genus, Peltops), Artaminae (with one genus containing the woodswallows) and Cracticinae (currawongs and butcherbirds, including the Australian magpie).
Historically, the cracticines – currawongs, Australian magpie and butcherbirds – were seen as a separate family Cracticidae and, according to the 2018 Cements List, they still are. [1] With their 1985 DNA study, Sibley and Ahlquist recognised the close relationship between the woodswallows and the butcherbirds in 1985, and placed them in a ...
In Higgins et al. “Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic birds”, Piping Shrike is listed as one of the other English names for the Australian Magpie. [ 19 ] 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 ...
Magpie goose at Fogg Dam in the Northern Territory. 1 species recorded [1 extant native] The family contains a single species, the magpie goose. It was an early and distinctive offshoot of the anseriform family tree, diverging after the screamers and before all other ducks, geese and swans, sometime in the late Cretaceous. The single species is ...
A cladistic study of the morphology of waterfowl found that the magpie goose was an early and distinctive offshoot, diverging after screamers and before all other ducks, geese and swans. [ 2 ] This family is quite old, a living fossil , having apparently diverged before the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event – the relative Vegavis iaai ...