Friday, June 12, 2015

GROUND CUCKOO-SHRIKE

Photographed on the Killarney Gap Road, 25 kilometres from Bingara, NSW, June 2015
625         GROUND CUCKOO-SHRIKE          Coracina maxima

Australia          (468)

33-36 cm. Fornd in open grasslands with dead trees and belts of live trees; timber on watercourses; malle-spinifex; mulga and other acacias; cypress pine scrubs; playpens, pasture, vineyards. Range: widespread across mainland, mostly inland of Gt Divide, but to near e. coast in lower Hunter Valley (NSW) and from near Brisbane to near Townsville (Q); sparse or absent from C. York Pen (Q) n. of Georgetown-Cunjuvoy; Top End  (NT); n Kimberley (WA); driest deserts and arid coastal areas; Nullarbor Plain and wetter forested areas in se. Just. and sw. WA. Uncommon, nomadic.














Photographed at Barrow Creek, Northern Territory May 2016