BLACK-BACKED BUTCHERBIRD

Photographed at Mushgrove Roadhouse, Queensland October 2015

682        BLACK-BACKED BUTCHERBIRD            Cracticus mentalis

Australia      (524)

Found in open forest/woodlands; watercourses, agricultural areas, settlements. 26-28 cm. Range: n. C York Pen. (Q), s. to Mitchell R. on w coast and to near Cooktown on the e. Common. Sedentary. 

BLACK BUTCHERBIRD

Photographed in the Daintree, September 2013

501          BLACK BUTCHERBIRD              Cracticus quoyi

Australia           (342)

Habitats include subtropical or tropical dry forests, moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests. 40-44 cm. Range coastal n. and ne. Aust., from Port Keats(NT)-Top End-Arnhem Land, inland c. 50 kimono rivers. C. York Pen.(Q) s. to Archer River in w. coastally s. to c. Rockhampton.

PIED BUTCHERBIRD

160        PIED BUTCHERBIRD         Cracticus nigrogularis

Australia    (160)

Found in drier woodlands, sub-inland, drier scrub, watercourses, pastoral land, roadsides, gardens. Range is mainland except drier deserts, Sydney and s. coast, e. and s. Victoria, much of SA, sw WA. Beautiful singing voice. 32-36 cm.

GREY BUTCHERBIRD

 159             GREY BUTCHERBIRD             Cracticus torquatus

Australia        (159)

Also known as Silver-backed Butcherbird, Derwent or Tasmanian Jackass. 24-30 cm. Range includes Tasmania, SA, Victoria, NSW, se half of Queensland, bottom half and top fifth of WA, areas to north and to south of NT. Found on margins of rain forests, vine-scrub, paperbarks, woodlands, coastal scrub, roadsides, parks.

Three subspecies in Australia:
torquatus:              over much of Australia, from southern half of WA to most of Q, NSW
leucopterus:          east coast of NSW, east and se of Victoria
cinereus:               eastern half of Tasmania.

Subspecies torquatus, photographed near Whyalla, South Australia, September 2018