Magpie Flycatcher
Adult Male, profile
Restless Flycatcher
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| Magpie Flycatcher Adult Male, profile | | Restless Flycatcher Nest | | ||
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 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves) | ||||||||||||||
| Order: | Perching Birds (Passeriformes) | |||||||||||||||
| Family: | Monarch Flycatcher (Monarchidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||||
| Species: | Magpie Flycatcher (Grallina cyanoleuca ssp cyanoleuca)| This Photo: | 🔍Adult Male, profile🔎 | Other names: | Magpie-lark, Mudlark, Murray Magpie or Peewee | Thank you Dezmond Wells for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Flinders Ranges, Coastal Areas and elsewhere The genders are easy to differential. The males have a horizontal line through the eye, the females have a vertical line through the eye. Kudos to Bruce Blackwell for the common name. They aren't Magpies and can be found in many areas of SA, away from the river. They aren't larks, or closely related to the Australian Magpie (even if they have a superficially similar appearance). They are a Flycatcher (surprisingly) and so the common name should reflect that. The common name Mudlark might come from the fact they make mud nests. As can be seen by the binomial name, this is the nominate subspecies.
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