Silver-backed Butcherbird
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Silver-backed Butcherbird

Cracticus argenteusGould, 1841

Endemic
Order
PASSERIFORMES
Family
Artamidae
Genus
Cracticus
Commonness
Endemic
Best seen
Year-round

01 · Identification

How to tell it apart

The silver-backed butcherbird is a small, shrike-like bird. It is almost identical to the grey butcherbird of which it considered by some authorities to be a subspecies, C. torquatus argenteus.

Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

02 · Where

Where to find it

Breeding range
North-west and north-central Australia

03 · When

When to look

Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.

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