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| 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.
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| Photographed at Barrow Creek, Northern Territory May 2016 |
nomadic indeed - you must have found them on their way - star twitching
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