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Coracina novaehollandiae

3 Black-faced Cuckooshrike at Majura, ACT

Coracina novaehollandiae at Majura, ACT - 13 Oct 2020
Coracina novaehollandiae at Majura, ACT - 13 Oct 2020
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Identification history

Coracina novaehollandiae 28 Oct 2020 natureguy
Coracina novaehollandiae 20 Oct 2020 rawshorty
Coracina papuensis 19 Oct 2020 natureguy
Coracina novaehollandiae 13 Oct 2020 AlisonMilton

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9 comments

natureguy wrote:
   18 Oct 2020
Are you sure these are Black-faced Cuckooshrikes? The left hand bird looks like a White-bellied Dark Form and the right hand bird also looks like it could be a White-bellied.
AlisonMilton wrote:
   18 Oct 2020
Happy to go with your judgement. There were a lot of cuckoo shrikes around.
rawshorty wrote:
   20 Oct 2020
Look like Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike to me ? Both have black in rear of eye.
rawshorty wrote:
   20 Oct 2020
Bird on left has grey crown ruling out dark morph WbCs and bird on right is a young BfCs.
DPRees125 wrote:
   20 Oct 2020
I think these are Black faced Cuckoo Shrikes, as Shorty has pointed out. The white at the back of the eye is quite obvious to see in a moving bird, as can be seen in my film from central NSW https://vimeo.com/136276070
Christine wrote:
   28 Oct 2020
I agree, these photos look just like the immature Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike illustrations in the Australian Bird Guide, and not at all like the White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike illustrations. Unless Alison has more photos which show the white half eye ring, or evidence that the black stripe does not cover the ear coverts then it is highly unlikely that they are the much rarer White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike.
AlisonMilton wrote:
   28 Oct 2020
That was my thought also. There were a lot of Black-faced flying around this area.
natureguy wrote:
   28 Oct 2020
Hi all, thanks for the comments and identification, I have re-confirmed and removed significant sighting. The left hand bird does appear to have much more black than I would expect for a Black-faced (Juv or adult) and I had other opinions that it was White-bellied, but thanks for pointing out the white behind the eye, something I didn't know about and something I will look for in the future.
natureguy wrote:
   1 Nov 2020
Just found another sighting of a bird that looks exactly like this one on ABID (facebook), ID'ed as a Black-faced. I have learnt some things from this sighting about Cuckooshike identification! Sorry for any confusion with the ID, it is definitely a Black-faced CS.

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