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The cracticines have large, straight bills and mostly black, white or grey plumage. All are omnivorous to some degree: the butcherbirds mostly eat meat; Australian magpies usually forage through short grass looking for worms and other small creatures; and currawongs are true omnivores, taking fruit,
191:– were seen as a separate family Cracticidae and, according to the 2018 Cements List, they still are. With their 1985 DNA study, Sibley and Ahlquist recognised the close relationship between the woodswallows and the butcherbirds in 1985, and placed them in a Cracticini clade, now the family
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The cracticines, despite their fairly plain, utilitarian appearance, are highly intelligent and have extraordinarily beautiful songs of great subtlety. Particularly noteworthy are the
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538:Kurrartapu johnnguyeni
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246:Subfamily Cracticinae:
226:Species of Cracticinae
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475:Strepera fuliginosa
398:Cracticus argenteus
389:Cracticus torquatus
297:Peltops blainvillii
201:monarch flycatchers
543:Strepera/Cracticus
466:Strepera graculina
430:Tagula butcherbird
425:Cracticus cassicus
421:Hooded butcherbird
407:Cracticus mentalis
357:Gymnorhina tibicen
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