Species profile
Hooded Butcherbird
Cracticus cassicus
Quick answer
Local name Man Kowo [k] (Kuneff, Sansundi; Soeparno 1977). Range C. c. cassicus Biak, Supiori, Numfor, Yapen, Kurudu. Status Resident. Obtained by four collectors and recorded by most visitors. Widespread and common in degraded, selectively logged and primary forest up to c. 305 m (KDB; Supiori). Less common in sparsely wooded farmland. Breeding 12 January 1997: carrying twigs to a platform nest in a 15 m-tall tree (SvB).
- Scientific name
- Cracticus cassicus
- Family
- Cracticidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Cracticus
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
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Related species in Cracticidae
- Australian Magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen)
- Australian Magpie (Cracticus tibicen)
- Black Butcherbird (Cracticus quoyi)
- Black Currawong (Strepera fuliginosa)
- Black-backed Butcherbird (Cracticus mentalis)
- Cracticus hypoleucus (Cracticus hypoleucus)
- Grey Butcherbird (Cracticus torquatus)
- Grey Currawong (Strepera versicolor)