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) [XC92862]
by nick talbot from Tahune Airwalk (visitors Centre), Tahune Forest Reserve, Tasmania, Australia (call)
Black Currawong (Strepera fuliginosa) [XC362989]
by Marc Anderson from Moina, Kentish Council, Tasmania, Australia (call)
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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