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This bird gets its nickname from its ‘peewee, peewee’ call. This bird only grows up to 20 cm in length, and has dark eyes and a white tummy. Willie Wagtails have very musical, sweet calls and are a delight to listen to. They love to wag their tails from side to side and up and down. The Willie Wagtail is a little bird with a long, fanned tail. You can tell it from other kinds of Ravens because it has a shorter tail. Like other Ravens, the Forest Raven has brilliant white eyes, and only jet black feathers. These Currawongs live mainly in the mountains but come down to lower altitudes and warmer temperatures in winter.įorest Ravens live mainly in Tasmania, but also in a few isolated pockets in New South Wales and Victoria. Ravens and Crows have white eyes and are black all over, but the Black Currawong has a little bit of white on its tail feathers. They are easy to distinguish from Ravens or Crows because they have bright yellow eyes. This bird makes a memorable ‘kar-week, week-kar’ call. Magpies make a caroling call and can mimic human voices. Their tummies are black and their rumps are white.
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Magpies are mostly black with a white patch on the back of their neck. You can tell a Magpie by its red-brown eyes. Magpies swoop from August to September when they have babies in the nest. These dads are just protecting their chicks. Females don’t swoop at all, and only 12% of males do. Magpies are known for swooping, but actually most of them don’t. Pied Currawongs can mimic sounds like mobile phones.
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It is mainly black with a few white patches. The Pied Currawong is identified by its bright yellow eye.
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They only live on Australia’s east coast but there are a lot of them around. The Pied Currawong gets its name from its call, which goes ‘curra-wong, curra-wong’.Īlmost everyone in eastern Australia will have seen the Pied Currawong. Unlike the Magpie, the Pied Butcherbird has white underparts. This bird has a black ‘bib’ on its throat, lined by a white collar and dark, almost black eyes. Pied Butcherbirds stay with their parents for a year and a half after hatching and help raise younger siblings. Pied Butcherbirds often call from high up in a tree where they are hard to see, but their calls travel over a great distance. The Pied Butcherbird has a beautiful, musical call that sounds like loud, clear notes from a flute. Black and white birds are some of the most commonly seen in our backyards. What bird is that? Many birds look similar and can be hard to tell apart from a distance.