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Pied Crow Strike - SMH

To: Troy Mutton <>, <>
Subject: Pied Crow Strike - SMH
From: Syd Curtis <>
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:57:38 +1000
Gould's "Handbook to the Birds of Australia" (1865):

    Strepera graculina and Cracticus picatus are both given as "Pied
Crow-Shrike

J. A. Leach, "An Australian Bird Book", 8th (1945) edition:

    Black-backed Magpie, Gymnorhina tibicen.  also Piping Crow-shrike
    Pied Butcher-Bird   Cracticus nigrogularis.  also Crow-Shrike
    Grey Butcher-Bird   Cracticus torquatus.  also Crow-Shrike

Cayley, "What Bird Is That?" (1946):

    Pied Curawong, Strepera graculina, also called Pied Crow-Shrike
    Black-backed Magpie, Gymnorhina tibicen.  also Piping Crow-shrike

Pied Curawong, Strepera graculina, appears the best bet.  The Magpie-lark
doesn't seem to get a mention among the Crow-shrikes.

Syd    

> From: "Troy Mutton" <>
> Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 11:00:03 +1100
> To: <>
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Pied Crow Strike - SMH
> 
> Does anyone want to have a go at what a "Pied Crow Strike" is? I'm thinking it
> must be magpie-lark (or mudlark, or murray magpie, or possibly now "pied crow
> strike"), currawong, or magpie. I wouldn't think any of them to be among the
> country's noisiest birds - surely the sulphur-crested cockatoos have got that
> down.

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