Grey Currawong

Within its range, the Grey Currawong is generally sedentary, although it is a winter visitor in the southeastern corner of Australia. Comparatively little studied, much of its behaviour and habits is poorly known. Omnivorous, it has a diet that includes a variety of berries, invertebrates, and small vertebrates. Less arboreal than the Pied Currawong, the Grey Currawong spends more time foraging on the ground. It builds nests high in trees, which has limited the study of its breeding habits. Unlike its more common relative, it has adapted poorly to human impact and has declined in much of its range. The habitat includes all kinds of forested areas as well as scrubland in dryer parts of the country.

The Grey Currawong is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

The Grey Currawong is variable across its range, grey in the east, blacker in Tasmania and browner in the west, with regional differences in the amounts of white in the wing. Another Australian species that is sometimes confused with the Pied Currawong is the Australian Magpie, Gymnorhina tibicen, although the two are quite different in plumage. The Magpie has a grey and black bill and a red-brown eye. The Australian Magpie also has large areas of white on the body. More

Grey Currawongs at nest. Grey Currawongs at nest. Photo: Purnell Collection © Australian Museum Distribution map of Strepera versicolor Distribution map of Strepera versicolor Map © Birds Australia Birdata Did you know? The Grey Currawong is so diverse in appearance that its six subspecies were originally thought of as separate species. More

All Grey Currawongs have a loud distinctive ringing or clinking call. Within its range, the Grey Currawong is generally sedentary, although it is a winter visitor in the southeastern corner of Australia. Comparatively little studied, much of its behaviour and habits is poorly known. Omnivorous, it has a diet that includes a variety of berries, invertebrates, and small vertebrates. Less arboreal than the Pied Currawong, the Grey Currawong spends more time foraging on the ground. More

A Grey Currawong (Strepera versicolor), photographed yesterday in the Wellsford State Forest. EXIF: Canon EOS 50D : 1/250 sec : f/5.6 : 400 mm : ISO 160 Categories: Photoblogs.org - The Photoblogging Resource View My Profile coolphotoblogs.com Birding Top 500 Counter VFXY Photos Vazaar photo blogs, top photoblogs 3759944 visitors | 1000 photos | RSS 2. More

The Grey Currawong can be found right across southern Australia only,in a belt including south-east NSW;Victoria;southern South Australia and southern West Australia. < THUMBNAIL PAGE. More

The Grey Currawong (Strepera versicolor) is a large passerine bird native to southern Australia and Tasmania. One of three currawong species in the genus Strepera, it is closely related to the butcherbirds and Australian Magpie of the family Artamidae. It is a large crow-like bird, around 48 cm (19 in) long on average, with yellow irises, and a heavy bill, and dark plumage with white undertail and wing patches. The male and female are similar in appearance. More

The larger Grey Currawong is readily distinguished by its lighter grey overall plumage and lack of white feathers at the base of the tail. In northwestern Victoria, the Black-winged Currawong (subspecies melanoptera of the Grey) does have a darker plumage than other Grey subspecies, but its wings lack the white primaries of the Pied Currawong. More

subspecies of the Grey Currawong are fairly distinctive and described on that species page. * S. fuliginosa - Black Jay or Black Currawong * S. fuliginosa colei - King Island Black Currawong * S. fuliginosa parvior - Flinders Island Black Currawong * S. graculina - Pied Currawong * S. graculina graculina * S. More

The Grey Currawong can be located both by its distinctive voice and by its noisy food searching habits. Its loud call rings through the forest with a "keer-keer-kink", "klink, klank" or "chling, chling" and "cree". It can also be heard noisily tearing bark off branches in its search for insects. More

The Grey Currawong (Strepera versicolor) is a large omnivorous bird found in southern Australia. Though crow-like in appearance and habits, it is a member of the Artamidae. Description Larger than its more common relative the Pied Currawong, the Grey Currawong is around 50 centimetres long and a dark sooty grey colour with white under the tail and wing patches, yellow eyes and a strong bill, curved at the tip. More

7 showing the grey currawong; in the report 'Managing Bird Damage to Fruit and Other Horticultural Crops'. Figure B.7: The grey currawong (Strepera versicolor). Photo: B. Furby. Habitat Currawongs occupy a wide range of habitats, including open Eucalyptus woodland and forest, wet sclerophyll, rainforest, shrubland, coastal woodland, parks and gardens, orchards, vineyards and agricultural areas with scattered Eucalyptus species. The pied currawong is rare or absent from open savannahs and arid and semi-arid regions. More

* The Grey Currawong (Stepera versicolor) has 6 different races spread right across the southern part of the continent from the Sydney area south and west around the coast and hinterland as far as the fertile south-west corner of Western Australia and the semi-arid country surrounding it. More

The Grey Currawong has six subspecies. They are all dark birds varying from grey to grey-brown to grey-black. They all have a white-tipped tail and yellow eye. Some subspecies have white markings on the wings. Click to continue> Pied Currawong (Strepera graculina) Pied Currawong Pied Currawong distribution map The Pied Currawong is a crow-sized black bird, with a bright yellow eye and white patch under tail. More

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There is a different species, the Grey Currawong, which is similar but grey in colour rather than black. Pied Currawong - Strepera graculina Photo: Wentworth Falls, Blue Mountains NSW Pied Currawong - Strepera graculina Photo: Wentworth Falls, Blue Mountains NSW Pied Currawong - Strepera graculina Artwork: John Gould, 'The Birds of Australia', 1848. Original Scanned Image. More

The Grey Currawong was first described as Corvus versicolor by ornithologist John Latham in 1801, who gave it the common name of 'Variable Crow'.1 The specific name versicolor means 'of variable colours' in Latin.2 Other old common names include Grey Crow-shrike, Leaden Crow-shrike, Mountain Magpie, Black-winged Currawong (in western Victoria), Clinking Currawong (in Tasmania), and Squeaker (in Western Australia). More

Grey Currawongs are widespread throughout the area where I live in South Australia but they are not common anywhere except perhaps in the Adelaide Hills. Around home here in Murray Bridge their preferred habitat is mallee scrubland. There are still a few remnant patches of scrub ranging from a few hectares to several hundred hectares. In addition, there is a significant amount of remnant mallee scrub that makes up the roadside vegetation in this district. More

The Grey Currawong (Strepera versicolor) is a large omnivorous bird found in southern Australia. Though crow-like in appearance and habits, it is a member of the Artamidae. Contents - * 1 Description * 1. More