PASSERIFORMES: Campephagidae

Coracina novaehollandiae  

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina novaehollandiae)
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© Larry Dunis 2009
Toorbul, QLD (Oct, 2009)

This nest was in a mangrove tree which at high-tide is waterbound.

Willie Wagtails were also using the tree as a nesting site.

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina novaehollandiae)

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina novaehollandiae)

Black-faced or White Bellied

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina novaehollandiae)

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina novaehollandiae)

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike at nest

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina novaehollandiae)

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina novaehollandiae)

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina novaehollandiae)

Juvenile Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina novaehollandiae)

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina novaehollandiae)

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina novaehollandiae)

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina novaehollandiae)

Snack time

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina novaehollandiae)

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina novaehollandiae)

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike