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Grey
Currawong -
Strepera versicolor
Resident in small
numbers. A large black or dark grey bird with a white-tipped tail and
white vent. Has a yellow eye.
Voice: loud ringing
call.
Call
1: ringing call
Similar species:
Other large black birds are Ravens (Little in the Adelaide Hills, Australian
in drier country) which are all black and have white eyes, and White-winged
Choughs, which have white panels in the wings and have red eyes. Choughs
have not yet been recorded in SLP.
Photographs
and sounds courtesy Merilyn Browne.
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