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  Barred Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina lineata)





Barred Cuckoo-shrike | Coracina lineata photo
Barred Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina lineata) Inskip Pt, SE Queensland, Australia

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BIRD FACTS

Description
The Barred Cuckoo-Shrike has dark grey back, wings, tail, head, throat and upper chest. The lower chest and underside is barred with horizontal stripes of white and dark grey. There is a dark grey band from eye to bill. The eye is yellow. Juvenile birds are streaked grey brown above and pale below with light streaking on breast.

Other Names
Yellow-eyed Cuckoo-shrike

Size
28 cm

Habitat
rainforest, eucalypt forest, woodlands

Food
fruit, insects

Breeding
The nest is a cup made of twigs, bark and cobwebs in the fork of a tree. The female lays 2 eggs spotted with brown.

Range
The Barred Cuckoo-shrike is found in north east New South Wales and eastern Queensland

distribution map showing range of Coracina lineata in Australia

Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.



Classification
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Campephagidae
Genus:Coracina
Species:lineata
Common Name:Barred Cuckoo-shrike

Relatives in same Genus
  Ground Cuckoo-shrike (C. maxima)
  Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (C. novaehollandiae)
  White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike (C. papuensis)
  Cicadabird (C. tenuirostris)