#grallina

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Magpie-Lark (Grallina cyanoleuca), male, EAT A TASTY MOFF!!!, family Monarchidae, order Passeriformes, NT, Australia

Also called Peewee, Peewit, & Mud lark

photograph by GDW.45

A magpie-lark (Grallina cyanoleuca) drinks from a puddle in Burswood Park, Perth, Western Australia

AKA peewee, peewit, mudlark, blue and white crow, pied grackle, Murray magpie , pied grallina, pugwall, byoolkolyedi, dilabot, koolyibarak. birrarik or birrerik. A passerine native to Australia, Timor and New Guinea.

They used to be in the Corcoracidae with the Apostlebird and White-winged Chough, but now they’re classified in the family Monarchidae with the monarch flycatchers. 

Carnivorous birds that hunts small animals in open ground, so mass land-clearing by humans has been quite useful for them, although they still need trees to build their mud nests in. 

Pairs sing in duets to establish territory, and are keenly aware where neighbouring pairs should be. They also fearlessly attack larger birds, including eagles, that come near the nests.