Woodswallows, Butcherbirds, and Currawongs
Artamidae
Artamidae is a family of passerine birds found in Australia, the Indo-Pacific region, and Southern Asia. It includes 24 extant species in six genera and three subfamilies: Peltopsinae (with one genus, the peltops), Artaminae (with one genus, the woodswallows) and Cracticinae (currawongs, butcherbirds and the Australian magpie). Artamids used to be monotypic, containing only the woodswallows, but it was expanded to include the family Cracticidae in 1994. Some authors, however, still treat the two as separate...
6 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 24 known species
Australian Magpies
genusGymnorhina
Typical Butcherbirds
genusCracticus
Currawongs
genusStrepera
Woodswallows
genusArtamus
Black Butcherbirds
genusMelloria
Peltopses
genusPeltops
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 71296.