Species profile
Black-Faced Cuckooshrike
Coracina novaehollandiae
Quick answer
** BLACK-FACED CUCKOOSHRIKE Coracina novaehollandiae Range Subspecies? Biak. Status Austral migrant. Widespread Australian migrant to New Guinea, especially the south (Beehler & Pratt 2016). Very few records on Biak and substantiation desirable: 4‒5 June 1990 (KDB); 30 September–1 October 1989 (KDB) and 25 April 2007 (T. Boucher, eBird checklist S26960960) .
- Scientific name
- Coracina novaehollandiae
- Family
- Campephagidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Coracina
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
Recording Black-Faced Cuckooshrike in your journal
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Related species in Campephagidae
- Andaman Cuckooshrike (Coracina dobsoni)
- Ashy Minivet (Pericrocotus divaricatus)
- Bar-bellied Cuckooshrike (Coracina striata)
- Barred Cuckooshrike (Coracina lineata)
- Black Cicadabird (Edolisoma melan)
- Black Cicadabird (Coracina melas)
- Black Cuckooshrike (Campephaga flava)
- Black-bellied Cicadabird (Coracina holopolia)