Grey Currawong Strepera versicolor
Grey Currawong, Wilson's Promontory, Victoria, Australia, April 2006 - click for larger image Australia
February / April 2006

The Grey Currawong is distributed in southern Australia from New South Wales across to the southern part of Western Australia. It is also in the eastern part of Tasmania. It is found in forest, woodland, scrub, orchards and gardens.

Grey Currawong, The Coorong, SA, Australia, February 2006 - click for larger image Photo 1 shows the nominate sub-species which is grey with a darker patch round the yellow eye, white undertail coverts and white tips to the tail. It has a white patch on the primaries which is visible in flight.

Photos 2, 3 and 4 show the sub-species S. v. melanoptera which is much darker, almost black, and with no or very little white on the primaries as can be seen in photo 4.
Grey Currawong, The Coorong, SA, Australia, February 2006 - click for larger image The bird shown here in photo 3 had a touch of yellow on the gape which would suggest a juvenile bird but juveniles and immatures have dark eyes which is not the case here.
Grey Currawong, The Coorong, SA, Australia, February 2006 - click for larger image
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