Cuckoo-shrikes (Campephagidae)
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina novaehollandiae) - HBW 10, p. 72
French: Échenilleur à masque noir
German: Schwarzgesicht-Raupenfänger
Spanish: Oruguero Carinegro
Other common names: Large(!)/Greater/White-vented Cuckoo-shrike, Australian Greybird
Taxonomy: Turdus novae Hollandiae J. F. Gmelin, 1789, “terra van Diemen” = Adventure Bay, Tasmania.
Forms a superspecies with C. macei, C. javensis, C. schistacea, C. personata, C. atriceps, C. fortis, C. welchmani and C. caledonica, possibly also including C. caeruleogrisea; all were formerly treated as conspecific. Australian populations of nominate race and melanops exhibit continent-wide cline of increasing body size N to S. Birds from (N Australia) described as race didimus, but considered indistinguishable from melanops. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- subpallida Mathews, 1912 - breeds WC Australia (Pilbara); non-breeding possibly Lesser Sundas and Kai Is.
- melanops (Latham, 1801) - breeds SW, S, E & N Australia and main offshore islands, also locally SE New Guinea (Port Moresby region); non-breeding Moluccas, Lesser Sundas, and E New Guinea E to W Solomons.
- novaehollandiae (J. F. Gmelin, 1789) - breeds Tasmania and islands in Bass Strait (King I, Furneaux Group); non-breeding SE Australia.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Bird brooding and preening. Bird1 left the nest and preened until bird2 arrived about 15 minutes later and started brooding. Rea Locality Hall, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Stephen Wallace 2 January 2012 1 year ago 1 min 11 sec 4.6 -
Bird, with plumage between immature and adult, calling. Locality Fraser, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Stephen Wallace 31 December 2011 1 year ago 1 min 28 sec 4.5 -
A female at the nest brooding. Locality Beechworth, Victoria, Australia (ssp melanops)
Josep del Hoyo 26 October 2009 2 years ago 44 sec 4.3 -
Brooding and feeding very small nestlings. Locality Hall, Australian Capital Territory, Australia (ssp melanops)
Stephen Wallace 6 January 2012 1 year ago 1 min 3 sec 4.3 -
A bird with nesting material in its beak. Adds it to the nest, then sits on the nest, then flies away Locality Banora Green, Banora Point, Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia (ssp melanops)
Nick Talbot 13 September 2010 2 years ago 32 sec 4.3 -
Preening after brooding. Locality Hall, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Stephen Wallace 2 January 2012 1 year ago 1 min 17 sec 3.8
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Another in the series showing a young cuckoo-shrike eating a huge Stick Insect
Locality Corinda, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (ssp melanops)
David Taylor 1 January 2007 2 years ago 4.6 -
This is one of a series showing the adult bird feeding a huge stick insect to the young bird
Locality Corinda, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (ssp melanops)
David Taylor 1 January 2007 2 years ago 4.5 -
Young Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike devours a Stick Insect
Locality Corinda, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (ssp melanops)
David Taylor 1 January 2007 2 years ago 4.4 -
Perched on a branch
Locality Gluepot Nature Reserve, South Australia, Australia
Peter Strauss 5 January 2013 19 weeks ago 4.4 -
Black-faced cuckoo-shrike
Locality Callum Brae, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia (ssp melanops)
Margaret Leggoe 19 January 2012 1 year ago 4.3 -
eating a lizard
Locality Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia
Georges Olioso 12 September 2007 4 years ago 4
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A bird calling from powerlines along a road. Locality New Lambton, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
(ssp melanops)
Nick Talbot 23 December 2012 14 weeks ago 0
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