Passeriformes

Butcherbirds (Cracticidae)

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• Medium-sized to large passerines, most with longish wings, long tail, long and generally stout bill with hooked tip, ground-foraging species short-tailed; plumage black and white, sometimes with grey, two species with red.
• Australia and New Guinea.
• Rainforest, eucalypt forest and savanna woodland.
• 3 genera, 12 species, 43 taxa.
• No species threatened; none extinct since 1600.