Other Names (World)
Black Currawong, Black Bell Magpie, Sooty Bell Magpie, Black Magpie, Black Jay, Mountain Magpie, Mountain Jay, Sooty Currawong, Sooty Crow-shrike
Black Currawong (Strepera fuliginosa) [XC96902]
by Patrik \u00c5berg from Derwent Bridge, Walls of Jerusalem NP Tas, Australia (begging call)
Black Currawong (Strepera fuliginosa) [XC715356]
by nick talbot from Cradle Mountain, Kentish Council, Tasmania, Australia (call, people walking and talking)
Nest
Large, open, composed of sticks, lined with rootlets and grass, usually in the upright forked branch of a tall tree.
Eggs (Guide)
2 - 4; grey-buff blotched with red-brown and purple; oval; about 40 x 29 mm.
Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Pied Currawong (Strepera graculina) and sometimes considered conspecific, but differs in vocalizations.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
fuliginosa (Gould, 1837) - Tasmania.
colei Mathews, 1916 - King I, in western Bass Strait.
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