Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike: Sub-Adult, front

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina novaehollandiae)

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves)

Order:

Perching Birds (Passeriformes)

Family:

Cuckoo-shrike (Campephagidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina novaehollandiae)

This Photo:

🔍Sub-Adult, front🔎

Thank you Matt Campbell, Antoni Camozzato & Anthony Paul for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills, the Flinders Ranges and elsewhere
A fairly large pretty grey bird with a distinctive black face, blending through to grey and then white under.
Swoops as it flies.
Similar to a Grey Shrike-thrush from the back, but larger.

This species is classed as

NT (Near Threatened)

in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)

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