Corcorax melanorhamphos

1 White-winged Chough at Splitters Creek, NSW

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Identification history

	Corcorax melanorhamphos	4 Oct 2021	Darcy
	Corcorax melanorhamphos	4 Oct 2021	KylieWaldon

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I suppose the extensive flooding and recent rain reduced the areas of ground foraging. I thought this bird was a black chook at first as it let me get awful close. But it was busy scratching up a meal. The eye ball is even weirder up close than from a distance!

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2 Abundance
3 Oct 2021 11:23 AM Recorded on
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Birds Other Birds Magpie or larger KylieWaldon Albury, Wodonga NatureMapr

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Corcorax melanorhamphos Scientific name
White-winged Chough Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 899.7m Recorded at altitude
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