white-backed magpies hybridisation [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

["Whitworth, Benjamin - BRS" <>]

If you are interested in this issue, Belinda Mitterdorfer studied the magpie hybrid zone and the genetics of it, in about 1997. I am not sure if she published her results. You could read her honours thesus at BOZO/ANU. At the Pinnacle each autumn/winter we get white-backed magpies coming in, presumably dispersing in from further south, but for much of the year there are mainly black backs.

B. Mitterdorfer "Microsatellite variation across a hybrid zone in the Australian magpie Gymnorhina tibicen." Hons.

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From: Philip Veerman [
Sent: Sunday, 29 June 2008 5:28 PM
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Subject: [canberrabirds] My teams (white-backed magpies hybridisation)

I have just had a quick look at the article that Chris cited on the subject (Emu 1976). There also was something similar in a CBN in the early 1980s (I haven't looked for it now). There is scope to see if the situation has changed over the years.

 

Philip