Stony Range RBG FaunaAustralian Bush Turkey Australian Magpie Myrmecia nigrocincta Pittosporum Leaf Beetle Red-tipped Crab Spider Stingless Bee Tetragonula sp Tiger Spider
One of the birds you are likely to see or hear at the Stony Range Regional Botanic Garden is the Australian Magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen). Native to Australia and southern New Guinea, the Australian Magpie is a medium-sized black and white passerine bird and said to be one of Australia’s most accomplished songbirds.
The robust adult Australian Magpie has distinctive black and white plumage, gold brown eyes and a solid wedge-shaped bluish-white and black bill.
Pictured here is this cheeky magpie that swooped me twice, so I turned and faced it, spoke out loud to it, asking “what do you think you are doing”. It moved from up in the tree and then down near me and then onto the ground, all the time looking at me. I kept talking to it and kept saying “and what do you think you are doing”. It kept cocking it’s head as if it understood. Eventually, after a final sideway look, it hopped to branch, then the magpie flew off.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Subphylum: Vertebrata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Artamidae
- Genus: Gymnorhina
- Species: Gymnorhina tibicen
Stony Range RBG FaunaAustralian Bush Turkey Australian Magpie Myrmecia nigrocincta Pittosporum Leaf Beetle Red-tipped Crab Spider Stingless Bee Tetragonula sp Tiger Spider
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