Black Butcherbird
Cracticus quoyi

The Black Butcherbird is the largest of Australia's butcherbirds and is a major predator on other small birds and their nestlings. They also feed on frogs, lizards and insects. In typical Butcherbird fashion they wedge their prey in a fork of a branch and strip the flesh off with their hooked bill. They are found in rainforest, mangroves and fringing coastal forests and are the only butcherbird to live almost exclusively in rainforest

Both the male and the female share in the nest building, incubation and the feeding of the young.

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Photographed at Thylogale
by David Armbrust