Masked Woodswallow
Adult Female, back
Masked Woodswallow
Adult Male, anterior, Parted Breast
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| Masked Woodswallow Adult Female, back | | Masked Woodswallow Adult Male, anterior, Parted Breast | | ||
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 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Perching Birds (Passeriformes) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Crow (Artamidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Masked Woodswallow (Artamus personatus)| This Photo: | Adult Male Cinnamon, anterior | Thank you Antoni Camozzato for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere Such a serious fellow with its blue beak, black face and grey body & wings. Very social birds often found roosting with close relatives the White-browed Woodswallows. Males have a well defined black patch on their face, with a white edge around the ear. Females have a grey face patch, with a fuzzy edge, bleeding to black between the eyes & beak. They have been known to cross breed with White-browed Woodswallows. Travelling north with the related White-browed Woodswallows in autum/winter, back to SA in spring/summer.
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