Coracina novaehollandiae

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 5,308 meters (0 to 17,415 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.7     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Mangrove Vegetation Above High Tide Level   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     2     Savanna   
  
•     2.1     Savanna - Dry   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
  
•     14.2     Artificial/Terrestrial - Pastureland   
  
•     14.5     Artificial/Terrestrial - Urban Areas   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Coracina novaehollandiae (J. F. Gmelin, 1789)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

Members of the genus Coracina

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 68 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. abbotti (Celebes Mountain Greybird) · C. analis (New Caledonian Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. atriceps (Moluccan Cuckoo Shrike) · C. azurea (African Blue Cuckoo Shrike) · (Pied Cuckoo Shrike) · C. boyeri (White-Lored Cuckoo Shrike) · C. caeruleogrisea (Stout-Billed Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. caeruleogrisea caeruleogrisea (Stout-Billed Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. caesia (African Grey Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. caesia caesia (African Grey Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. caledonica (Melanesian Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. caledonica caledonica (Melanesian Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. ceramensis (Pale-Gray Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. cinerea (Madagascar Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. cinerea cinerea (Madagascar Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. coerulescens (Philippine Black Greybird) · C. coerulescens coerulescens (Philippine Black Greybird) · (Kai Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. dohertyi (Black Barred Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. fimbriata (Lesser Cuckoo Shrike) · C. fimbriata fimbriata (Lesser Cuckoo Shrike) · C. fortis (Buru Islands Cuckoo Shrike) · C. graueri (Grauer's Cuckoo Shrike) · C. holopolia (Solomon Islands Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. incerta (Black-Shouldered Cicadabird) · C. javensis (Javan Cuckoo Shrike) · C. larvata (Black-Eared Cuckooshrike) · C. larvata larvata (Black-Faced Greybird) · C. leucopygia (White-Rumped Cuckoo Shrike) · C. lineata (Yellow-Eyed Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. longicauda (Black-Hooded Greybird) · C. macei (Black-Throated Cuckooshrike) · C. macei macei (Large Cuckoo Shrike) · C. maxima (Ground Cuckoo Shrike) · C. maxima maxima (Ground Cuckooshrike) · (McGregor's Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. melaena (New Guinea Cuckoo Shrike) · C. melanoptera (Black-Headed Cuckoo Shrike) · C. melanoptera melanoptera (Black-Headed Cuckoo Shrike) · C. melas (New Guinea Cuckoo Shrike) · C. melaschistos (Black-Winged Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. melaschistos melaschistos (Black-Winged Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. mindanensis (Black-Bibbed Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. montana (Black-Bellied Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. montana montana (Black-Bellied Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. morio (Black-Shouldered Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. morio morio (Black-Shouldered Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. newtoni (Réunion Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. novaehollandiae (Black-Faced Cuckoo Shrike) · C. novaehollandiae novaehollandiae (Black-Faced Cuckoo Shrike) · C. ostenta (White-Winged Cuckoo Shrike) · C. papuensis (White-Bellied Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. papuensis papuensis (White-Bellied Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. parvula (Halmahera Cuckoo Shrike) · C. pectoralis (White-Breasted Cuckoo Shrike) · C. personata (Wallacean Cuckoo Shrike) · C. personata personata (Timor Cuckooshrike) · C. polioptera (Indochinese Cuckoo Shrike) · C. robusta (Little Cuckoo Shrike) · C. schistacea (Sula Islands Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. schisticeps (Grey-Headed Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. striata (Bar-Bellied Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. striatus (Bar-Bellied Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. sula (Moluccan Graybird) · C. temminckii (Temminck's Cuckoo-Shrike) · C. tenuirostris (Slender-Billed Cicadabird) · C. tenuirostris tenuirostris (Slender-Billed Cicadabird) · C. typica (Mauritius Cuckoo-Shrike)

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Further Reading

• A list of the birds of Australia: containing the names and synonyms connected with each genus, species, and subspecies of birds found in Australia, at present known to the author / London: Witherby, 1913. url p. 193, p. 361, p. 395, p. 449.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 256, p. 286, p. 609.
• Bulletin / Peabody Museum of Natural History. 1970 New Haven: Peabody Museum of Natural History, url p. 64.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 113, p. 159, p. 237.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 123 1961 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 349, p. 350, p. 413, p. 421.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 169, p. 170, p. 171.
• Distributional notes on Nepal birds [by] Robert L. Fleming and Melvin A. Traylor. 53 1968 [Chicago]Field Museum of Natural History, 1968. url p. 195.
• IUCN Directory of South Asian Protected Areas IUCN url p. 284.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 122.
• Journal of ethnobiology. 21 2001 Flagstaff, Ariz.: Center for Western Studies, 1981- url p. 143.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url p. 217, p. 329, p. 413.
• Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. Mosman, New South Wales [etc.]The Society. url p. 9.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 107 1948 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 17.
• The Australian zoologist. Sydney, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales url p. 38.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2009. Coracina novaehollandiae. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 10, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 5 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 10, 2008:

• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds (Aves)
• Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates: Bird Collection
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• National Chemical Laboratory: IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS
• OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 4150
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-559467
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2481009
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 559467
• IUCN ID: 201937
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 136273

Footnotes

1. Mean = 659.460 meters (2,163.583 feet), Standard Deviation = 879.680 based on 138,225 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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