White-browed Woodswallow
2 Females Roosting
Ellura
Pied Butcherbird
Juvenile, front
 
                      
White-browed Woodswallow (Artamus superciliosus)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves)
Order: Perching Birds (Passeriformes)
Family: Crow (Artamidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: White-browed Woodswallow (Artamus superciliosus)
This Photo:     Roosting

Thank you Louise Merigot for confirming the id of this species for us

EXTRA - Photo Specific Information:
These are very social birds and often flock together (both masked & white-browed).
There were 13 woodswallows on this branch before we took the photo.
There are 9 in the original photo and 8 in this cropped version.
General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Often found roosting with their Masked cousins. But never mating together.

Copyright © 2009-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 26-Oct-2009
This species is classed as NT (Near Threatened) in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)