Grey Currawong (Strepera versicolor) [XC263802]
by Barry Edmonston from Brookfield Conservation Park, SA, Australia (call)
Grey Currawong (Strepera versicolor) [XC484847]
by Ramit Singal from Montacute, Adelaide Hills Council, South Australia, Australia (alarm call, call)
Nest
Untidy, loose, shallow, bowl-shaped, composed of long twigs, lined with rootlets and grass, in a tree about 3 - 14 meters above the ground.
Eggs (Guide)
2 or 3; stone-brown to pink-buff with dark brown, red-brown and lilac-grey spots and blotches; oval; about 42 x 30 mm. Incubation: by female.
Subspecies
Subspecies intergrade wherever they abutt.
The following 6 subspecies are recognised:
plumbea Gould, 1846 - From south-western western Australia (southern from Geraldton) east, discontinuously, to extreme south-western northern Territory (Petermann Ranges) and western South Australia (Musgrave and Everard Ranges, and in Great Victoria Desert).
intermedia Sharpe, 1877 - South Australia from Ooldea eastern along coast (south of Nullarbor Plain) to Yorke Peninsula.
melanoptera Gould, 1846 - South-eastern South Australia (southern Flinders Ranges south to Fleurieu Peninsula and Mt Lofty Ranges) east to mallee areas of north-western Victoria.
halmaturina Mathews, 1912 - Kangaroo I, off South Australia.
versicolor (Latham, 1801) - South-eastern New South Wales (from Hunter R) south, inland to western slopes of Great Dividing Range, to western Victoria (Grampians and, on coast, to Port Phillip Bay).
arguta Gould, 1846 - Eastern Tasmania (east of line joining Devonport and Hobart).
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Field Guide to Australian Birds Morecombe, M., 2000, Steve Parish Publishing Pty Ltd. ISBN 1 876282 10 X
Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Simpson, K., and Day, N., 1999, 6th Edition, Viking ISBN 0 670 87918 5
Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds 1988, 2nd Edition, Reader's Digest ISBN 0 949819 99 9
What Bird is That? 1984, Revised Edition, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 14846 5
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds 1990 - , Oxford University Press, Melbourne ISBN 0 19 553244 9
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