Sightings:
Templestowe: 2016: September, October, November, December. 2017: January.
The 100 Acres, Park Orchards: 2016: September, October, November. 2017: January.
Glynn's Reserve, Warrandyte: 2016: September, October.
Ruffey Lake park, Doncaster: 2016: September, October, November. 2017: January.
East Doncaster: 2016: September, October, November, December. 2017: January.
Mildura: 2016: September.
Kinchega N.P., N.S.W.: 2016: September.
Flinders Ranges N.P., S.A.: 2016: September.
Banyule Flats Reserve: 2016: September, October, November.
Wilson Reserve, East Ivanhoe: 2016: September, November. 2017: January.
Pound Bend, Warrandyte State Park: 2017: January.
Heritage Wetlands, Wonga Park: 2017: January.
Notes:
Often in family groups feeding on worms on the ground. Their call, known as carolling, is musical, and sometimes heard on moonlight nights. They tend to prefer open country.
In Melbourne we have the sub-species with the white back, hypoleuca, while the female has mottled grey.
This young Magpie could fly but was still showing more brown and grey in its plumage than an adult.
What a peculiar-looking magpie! Completely different than we do here. Color is the same.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Anne. They are in a different family to your Magpies, but the first Europeans living in Australia must have thought the black and white colours were similar and named them that way!
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