BirdUp · Species
White-winged Chough
Corcorax melanorhamphos(Vieillot, 1817)
Endemic
- Order
- PASSERIFORMES
- Family
- Corcoracidae
- Genus
- Corcorax
- Commonness
- Endemic
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The white-winged chough is one of only two surviving species of the Australian mud-nest builders family, Corcoracidae, and is the only member of the genus Corcorax. It is native to southern and eastern Australia and is an example of convergent evolution as it is only distantly related to the European choughs that it closely resembles in shape, and for which it was named.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- South and east Australia
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
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05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
06 · Gallery
Plumage up close
2 photos
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