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Photo by Gallus
Photo taken: Victoria, Australia.

Artamus superciliosus

[edit] Identification

20cm. Black face and chin, deep blue grey upperparts, chestnut brown lower breast to undertail, pale white grey underwings and undertail, with white tail tips, distinctive white eyebrow. Females duller, browner body and pink to fawn underparts. Young birds are mainly brown, mottled and streaked buff to cream, no white brow.

[edit] Distribution

Australia.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Habitat

Eucalypt forests and woodlands, dry heaths, spinifex, farmlands, orchards and towns.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes flying insects.

A loose shallow nest is built from twigs, grasses and roots, and placed in a tree fork, hollow stump or fence post, about 1 m to 6 m above the ground. 2-3 eggs are laid. Both sexes build the nest, incubate the eggs and feed the young.

[edit] External Links

• View more images of this species on the ABID