Woodswallows (Artamidae)
Black-faced Woodswallow (Artamus cinereus) - HBW 14, p. 307
French: Langrayen gris
German: Schwarzgesicht-Schwalbenstar
Spanish: Artamo Carinegro
Other common names: Grey/Grey-breasted/White-bellied Woodswallow; White-vented Woodswallow (normani, dealbatus)
Taxonomy: Artamus cinereus Vieillot, 1817, Timor; error = south coast of Western Australia opposite Archipelago of the Recherche.
Race name dealbatus is a replacement for hypoleucus (itself a new name for albiventris, which preoccupied), since type specimen of hypoleucus is from an intergrade population. Geographical variation rather complex and not fully understood; races intergrade extensively where they meet, e.g. nominate race intergrading with melanops over very wide area across SW of species' range; further study desirable. Five subspecies currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- perspicillatus Bonaparte, 1850 - Timor, Leti and Sermata Is, in E Lesser Sundas.
- melanops Gould, 1865 - N, C & inland SE Australia.
- cinereus Vieillot, 1817 - SW Australia.
- perspicillatus Bonaparte, 1850 - Timor, Leti and Sermata Is, in E Lesser Sundas.
- melanops Gould, 1865 - N, C & inland SE Australia.
- cinereus Vieillot, 1817 - SW Australia.
- normani ( Mathews, 1923) - SC New Guinea and NE Australia (C & S Cape York Peninsula, and inland NE Queensland).
- dealbatus Schodde & Mason, 1999 - EC Queensland.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Two birds perching, one pecking leaves then being pecked by a Singing Honeyeater Locality Brookfield Conservation Park, South Australia, Australia (ssp cinereus)
Nick Talbot 14 April 2006 6 years ago 19 sec 4 -
A bird resting on a wire and looking around Locality Broadwater Conservation Park, Queensland, Australia (ssp cinereus)
Eldert Groenewoud 28 July 2007 4 years ago 27 sec 4 -
A bird perching on a branch and then flying away Locality Brookfield Conservation Park, South Australia, Australia (ssp cinereus)
Nick Talbot 14 April 2006 6 years ago n/a 3.4 -
An adult preening Locality Thylungra, Queensland, Australia (ssp cinereus)
Tom Tarrant 31 March 1996 8 years ago 26 sec 3.3 -
A bird perched, looking around and flying away. Locality Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia (ssp melanops)
Josep del Hoyo 27 October 2009 2 years ago 26 sec 3 -
A bird perched and then flying away. Locality Beechworth, Victoria, Australia (ssp melanops)
Josep del Hoyo 26 October 2009 2 years ago 30 sec 3
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family group on branch
Locality Thargomindah, Queensland, Australia
David Taylor 1 June 2012 40 weeks ago 4.6 -
A Black-faced Woodswallow with nest building material.
Locality Tambellup, Western Australia, Australia
Nicholas Tomney 7 November 2012 26 weeks ago 4 -
perching on dead branch
Locality Bowra Station, Cunnamulla, Queensland, Australia
Chris Charles 18 September 2011 1 year ago 4 -
One of several birds feeding on the outskirt of town.
Locality Normanton, Queensland, Australia (ssp normani)
Tom Tarrant 4 August 2010 2 years ago 4 -
Black-faced Woodswallow on dead tree in western Queensland
Locality Bowra Station, Cunnamulla, Queensland, Australia
David Taylor 1 January 2009 2 years ago 4 -
Black-faced Woodswallow on dead tree
Locality Bowra Station, Cunnamulla, Queensland, Australia
David Taylor 1 January 2009 2 years ago 3.7
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