Barred Cuckooshrike
Coracina lineata· 鹃鵙科(1 photos)
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Barred Cuckooshrike
24-26 cm. Small, neat, dark cuckoo-shrike with black mask, pale yellow eye, finely black/white barred underparts; bill/legs black. Immature: dark eye; scalloped on head/body; underparts whitish. Pairs, parties: makes short flights in canopy to seize fruit; actions quick, precise; flicks wings. Roosts communally.
- Other name
- Yellow-eyed Cuckoo-shrike.
- Similar Species
- Oriental Cuckoo.
- Voice
- pleasant musical chatter, like toy mouth organ.
- Habitat
- rainforest; vine-scrub and margins; eucalypt forests/woodlands; clearings in secondary growth; paperbarks; timber on watercourses; native figs, other trees with fruits; plantations, gardens.
- Breeding
- Oct.-Jan.
- Nest
- saucer of fine twigs, spiders' web; on horizontal fork or branch, to 20 m.
- Eggs
- 2; white, spotted brown, purplish grey.
- Range & Status
- coastal e. Aust.: breeds s. to Nambucca Heads-Port Macquarie (NSW); casual Hunter Valley. Summer breeding migrant in se. Q-ne. NSW; nomadic in response to ripening of rainforest fruit. Uncommon Q; rare NSW. Also PNG, islands.
- Distribution key to races
- 1. Coracina lineata lineata
