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Black-faced Cuckoo Shrike
Black-Backed Magpie
Chestnut Teal
Crested Pigeon
Domestic Pigeon
Eastern Rosella
Figbird
Galah
Little Corella
Noisy Miners
Rainbow Lorikeets
Grey Butcher Bird
Figbird
Sphecotheres
viridis
NOTES: Also called Mulberrybird and
Bananabird. Frequents lowland forests and settled areas (including gardens and
city parks), especially where fig trees occur. It is gregarios, noisy and
conspicuous, constantly uttering it's peculiar chattering notes; these sometimes
extend into mimicary. Food: mulberries (I find them in my mulberry bushes),
figs, and other soft fruits
NEST: Open, shallow, of vine-tendrils and twigs; although only
scanty, it is strongly built into the forked leafy twigs of an outer branch of a
tree, at heights of up to 25 metres from the ground
EGGS:
Usually three; varying from pale apple-green to dull olive-green, with reddish
or purplish-brown markings. Breeding-season: October to January.
DISTRIBUTION: Northern and eastern Australia, west to the
Kimberley, WA and south to about Kiama NSW. Two well-marked subspecies (in
Australia), formerly regarded as distinct species, but which interbreed over a
wide area of coastal Queensland: S. v. flaviventris (Yellow Figbird) occurs
north of about Cardwell, and S. v. vielloti (Southern or Green Figbird...shown)
south of about Proserpine. Also Indonesia and New Guinea
from What Bird is
That? Neville W. Cayley 1931. revised Terence Lyndsey 1984.
p41, p43. Angus and Robertson. Sydney. Australia
The male (left) and female are one of two pairs visiting the mulberry trees in the front yard this spring