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Black Butcherbird № 19

Black Butcherbird

Melloria quoyi

All black, heavy hooked bill, and a rich fluting call that carries through mangrove and rainforest. The name is earned: prey gets wedged in a fork for later.

Photo · Richard Littauer · CC BY 4.0 · source · iNaturalist. Cropped and resized.

Call · Karl Tattersall · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · iNaturalist. Trimmed to 30 seconds, volume normalised.

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