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Black ButcherbirdAlternate name(s): "Rufous Crow-shrike", "Black Crow-shrike" ![]() Size: 38-44 cm Weight: 125-220 g; race "spaldingi": 180-220 g; race "rufescens": 125-175 g |
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Photos |
Race "spaldingi"
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ADULT |
Sex unknown |
Full-frontal/ventral view of a Black Butcherbird
[East Point Reserve, Darwin, NT, August 2014]
Frontal/ventral view of a Black Butcherbird
[East Point Reserve, Darwin, NT, August 2014]
Near-frontal view of a Black Butcherbird
(photo courtesy of P. Brown)
[East Point Reserve, Darwin, NT, August 2018]
Partly obscured near-lateral view of a Black Butcherbird;
this is the bird whose
calls
were recorded on 21 July 2019
(photo courtesy of P. Brown)
[Fannie Bay, Darwin, NT, July 2019]
Near-lateral view of a Black Butcherbird
[East Point Reserve, Darwin, NT, August 2014]
Lateral view of a Black Butcherbird (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Leanyer Sewage Treatment Plant, Darwin, NT, March 2013]
Near-dorsal view of a Black Butcherbird (photo courtesy of P. Brown)
[Rapid Creek, Darwin, NT, May 2018]
Near-dorsal/ventral view of a Black Butcherbird
[East Point Reserve, Darwin, NT, August 2014]
Race "rufescens"
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ADULT |
Sex unknown |
Near-frontal/ventral view of a Black Butcherbird
(photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Rocky Creek, Cairns, QLD, July 2013]
Near-lateral view of a Black Butcherbird
(photo courtesy of A. Lee)
[East Russell, near Cairns, QLD, October 2020]
Lateral view of a Black Butcherbird (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Rocky Creek, Cairns, QLD, July 2013]
Near-dorsal/ventral view of a Black Butcherbird
(photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Daintree River, QLD, December 2018]
Dorsal view of a Black Butcherbird (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Rocky Creek, Cairns, QLD, July 2013]
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IMMATURE/JUVENILE |
Frontal view of a rufous-morphology juvenile Black Butcherbird
(photo courtesy of B. Collett)
[Edge Hill, Cairns, QLD, December 2016]
Black Butcherbird with a begging rufous-morphology juvenile
(photo courtesy of B. Collett)
[Edge Hill, Cairns, QLD, December 2016]
Race "jardini"
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ADULT |
Near-frontal view of a Black Butcherbird
(photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Gunshot Creek, Cape York peninsula, QLD, August 2019]
Near-lateral view of a Black Butcherbird (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Mossman, QLD, November 2018]
Lateral view of a Black Butcherbird
(photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Gunshot Creek, Cape York peninsula, QLD, August 2019]
Near-dorsal view of a Black Butcherbird
(photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Gunshot Creek, Cape York peninsula, QLD, August 2019]
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Food, Diet |
Black Butcherbird living up to its name, bringing an hapless juvenile
Comb-crested Jacana
into a tree...
(photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Mossman, QLD, November 2018]
Black Butcherbird living up to its name, wedging a juvenile
Comb-crested Jacana
in a fork...
(photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Mossman, QLD, November 2018]
Black Butcherbird living up to its name, "butchering" a juvenile
Comb-crested Jacana
by tearing pieces out of the wedged-in carcass
(photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Mossman, QLD, November 2018]
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Call(s)/Song |
For this species we have recorded the following call(s)/song. The
interpretation of their meaning is our own;
comments and suggestions for improvement are welcome.
blbutch_pb_20191206_2.m4a |
spaldingi (Darwin, NT) |
Contact call(?) | © PB | |
blbutch_pb_20191206_5.m4a |
spaldingi (Darwin, NT) |
Contact calls(?), Q&A | © PB | |
blbutch_pb_20180831.m4a |
spaldingi (Darwin, NT) |
Contact calls(?), Q&A | © PB | |
blbutch_pb_20191206_4.m4a |
spaldingi (Darwin, NT) |
"Currawong-like" call | © PB | |
blbutch_pb_20190721.m4a |
spaldingi (Darwin, NT) |
"Currawong-like" calls | © PB | |
blbutch_pb_20180831_2.m4a |
spaldingi (Darwin, NT) |
"Babbling" | © PB | |
blbutch_pb_20191206_3.m4a |
spaldingi (Darwin, NT) |
Various (6 foraging in mangrove) | © PB | |
blbutch_pb_20191206.m4a |
spaldingi (Darwin, NT) |
Various (6 foraging in mangrove) | © PB | |
blbutch_pb_20200415.m4a |
spaldingi (Darwin, NT) |
Various (going to roost) | © PB | |
blbutch_pb_20200415_2.m4a |
spaldingi (Darwin, NT) |
Various (going to roost) | © PB | |
blbutch_pb_20180831_3.m4a |
spaldingi (Darwin, NT) |
Various | © PB | |
blbutch_pb_20210206.m4a |
spaldingi (Darwin, NT) |
Various | © PB | |
intract_pb_20180503.m4a |
spaldingi (Darwin, NT) |
? (Alarming Spangled Drongo & Magpie-lark) | © PB | |
blbutch_pb_20200319.m4a |
spaldingi (Top End, NT) |
Immature practising? | © PB | |
blbutch_pb_20180503.m4a |
spaldingi (Darwin, NT) |
? | © PB |
More Black Butcherbird sound recordings are available at
xeno-canto.org
.