Butcherbird information

Butcherbirds are songbirds closely related to the Australian magpie. Most are found in the genus Cracticus, but the black butcherbird is placed in the...

The pied butcherbird (Cracticus nigrogularis) is a songbird native to Australia. Described by John Gould in 1837, it is a black and white bird 28 to 32 cm...

The grey butcherbird (Cracticus torquatus) is a widely distributed species endemic to Australia. It occurs in a range of different habitats including...

The black butcherbird (Melloria quoyi, also known as Cracticus quoyi) is a species of butcherbird in the family Artamidae. It is found in Australia, Indonesia...

The hooded butcherbird (Cracticus cassicus) is a species of passerine bird in the family Artamidae. It is found in New Guinea. Its natural habitat is...

The Tagula butcherbird (Cracticus louisiadensis) is a species of bird in the family Artamidae. It is endemic to Tagula Island in Papua New Guinea. BirdLife...

Time of the Butcherbird is the final novel by South African novelist Alex La Guma. The novel was first published in 1979. Gagiano, Annie (1997). "'The...

one genus containing the woodswallows) and Cracticinae (currawongs and butcherbirds, including the Australian magpie). Artamids used to be monotypic, containing...

Heinemann. A Soviet Journey (1978), Moscow: Progress Publishers. Time of the Butcherbird (1979), London: Heinemann. Parekh, Pushpa Naidu; Jagne, Siga Fatima (1998)...

areas. Historically, the cracticines – currawongs, Australian magpie and butcherbirds – were seen as a separate family Cracticidae and, according to the 2018...

appropriating the song of the Australian pied butcherbird (Cracticus nigrogularis): In compositional design, pied butcherbird vocalisations have been the source...

in its own genus Gymnorhina and is most closely related to the black butcherbird (Melloria quoyi). It is not closely related to the European magpie, which...

2011. Taylor, Hollis (21 March 2011). "Composers' Appropriation of Pied Butcherbird Song: Henry Tate's "undersong of Australia" Comes of Age". Journal of...

Cracticus is a genus of butcherbirds native to Australasia. They are large songbirds, being between 30 and 40 cm (12–16 in) in length. Their colour ranges...

concertmaster at Wolf Trap. Since 2005, Taylor has recorded the song of the pied butcherbird, an Australian songbird known for its unusually complex and beautiful...

honeyeaters, Australasian treecreeper, Australasian robin, kingfishers, butcherbirds, and bowerbirds. A unique feature of Australia's fauna is the relative...

johnnguyeni is an extinct species of bird in the Australian magpie and butcherbird family. It was described from Early Miocene material (a proximal tarsometatarsus)...

Talking birds are birds that can mimic the speech of humans. There is debate within the scientific community over whether some talking parrots also have...

woodshrikes, and helmetshrikes Pityriasidae: Bornean bristlehead Artamidae: butcherbirds, currawongs and Australian magpie (formerly in Cracticidae) Rhagologidae:...

from the Latin word for "butcher", and some shrikes are also known as butcherbirds because of the habit, particularly of males, of impaling prey onto plant...

its range, however it is also found in Siberia. It is nicknamed the butcherbird after its carnivorous tendencies, as it consumes prey such as insects...

subfamily Cracticinae), or as the only genus in that family (with the butcherbirds, currawongs, and allies placed in a separate family, Cracticidae). The...

more closely related to crows and ravens than the Australian magpie and butcherbirds, and duly placed them in the Corvidae. A review of the family Cracticidae...

Malaconotoidea Machaerirhynchidae: boatbills Artamidae: woodswallows, butcherbirds, currawongs, and Australian magpie Rhagologidae: mottled berryhunter...