Pied Currawong
英文名：Pied Currawong（学名：Strepera graculina），是雀形目燕鵙科噪钟鹊属的鸟类。体型较大，与乌鸦相似，分布于澳大利亚东部的森林地区，比较常见。此物种拥有黑色或煤灰色羽毛，白色翼斑和尾下覆羽，黄色的眼睛，以及显著的长喙。其鸣声独特，被描述为‘curr-a-wong’。
Pied Currawong
42-50 cm. Male larger. Black bird with robust black bill, yellow eyes, white window in the wing, white base to tail feathers, white undertail-coverts/tail tips. Note that in sw. Vic., white markings in wings and at base of tail are smaller than on e. coast. Female: greyer. Immature: grey-brown; breast mottled; feathers have paler edges; has less white; eye dark. Singles, pairs, autumn/winter flocks. Noisy, especially in rough weather; forages on ground, trunks, limbs, in foliage. Flies with deep, lapping wingbeats/swoops; silhouette flat, showing small-to-large white base to tail feathers - the only currawong so marked. Droops wings on alighting, sometimes cocks tail. Tame around settlement, picnic areas, ski villages. In winter, noisy communal roosts.
- Similar Species
- White-winged Chough. Grey Currawong: no white base to tail feathers, but see race melanoptera ('Black-winged Currawong'), below.
- Voice
- loud, falsetto, 'currar' wailed, descending; 'crik, crik, bewaiir'; 'currar-awok-awok-currar', or 'jabawok! jabawok!'; in e. Aust., long wolf-whistle 'weeeooo'.
- Habitat
- alpine forests/woodlands to c. 1500 m; rainforests, forests, woodlands, inland/coastal scrubs; farmlands, garbage tips, picnic grounds, parks, gardens.
- Breeding
- Aug.-Dec.
- Nest
- flattish, of sticks; lined with roots, grass, bark; in leafy fork, 5-25 m high.
- Eggs
- 3; light-brown, freckled, blotched darker.
- Range & Status
- e. Aust. and islands from C. York (Q) to sw. Vic.-far se. SA. Inland in Q to c. upper Mitchell R.-Longreach-Idalia NP-Morven; in NSW to Collarenebri-Hillston-Barham. In Vic., inland on Murray R. to c. Kerang, rare w. of Grampians NP. Breeds in forested ranges, coasts, foothills; flocks disperse to coastal lowlands, inland plains, April-Sept. Year-round resident in highlands of ne. Q. Common. Sedentary; dispersive.
- Distribution key to races
- 1. Strepera graculina magnirostris 2. Strepera graculina robinsoni 3. Strepera graculina graculina 4. Strepera graculina nebulosa 5. Strepera graculina ashbyi 6. Strepera graculina crissalis (Lord Howe I.)
