Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Monarchidae > Grallina > Grallina cyanoleucaGrallina cyanoleuca (Magpielark)Synonyms: Corvus cyanoleucus (homotypic) The magpie-lark (Grallina cyanoleuca) is a conspicuous Australian bird of small to medium size, also known as the mudlark in Victoria and Western Australia, the Murray magpie in South Australia, and as the peewee in New South Wales and Queensland. It had been relegated to a subfamily of fantails in the family Dicruridae (drongos), but has been placed in a new family of Monarchidae (monarch flycatchers) since 2008. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 8.07173 EDGE Score: 2.20516 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 83 grams | | Birth Weight [2] | 6.4 grams | | Female Weight [1] | 79 grams | | Male Weight [1] | 88 grams | | Weight Dimorphism [1] | 11.4 % |  | | Diet [3] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Granivore | | Diet - Ectothermic [3] | 20 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [3] | 70 % | | Diet - Seeds [3] | 10 % | | Forages - Ground [3] | 100 % | | | Clutch Size [5] | 4 | | Clutches / Year [1] | 2 | | Fledging [1] | 20 days | | Incubation [4] | 18 days | | Mating System [2] | Monogamy | | Maximum Longevity [4] | 10 years | | | Female Maturity [1] | 0 years 12 months |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Coorong National Park |
II |
121235 |
South Australia, Australia |
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Currawinya Lakes National Park |
II |
372252 |
Queensland, Australia |
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Dunggir National Park |
II |
6402 |
New South Wales, Australia |
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Fitzgerald River National Park |
II |
732417 |
Western Australia, Australia |
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Flinders Chase National Park |
II |
81245 |
South Australia, Australia |
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Hattah-Kulkyne NP and Murray-Kulkyne Park National Park |
II |
122831 |
Victoria, Australia |
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Kooragang Nature Reserve |
IV |
8300 |
New South Wales, Australia |
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Kosciuszko National Park |
II |
1705480 |
New South Wales, Australia |
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Lamington National Park |
II |
50970 |
Queensland, Australia |
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Prince Regent River Nature Reserve |
Ia |
1428602 |
Western Australia, Australia |
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Purnululu National Park |
II |
604999 |
Western Australia, Australia |
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Riverland Biosphere Reserve |
Ia |
1490891 |
South Australia, Australia |
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Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area Ramsar Site |
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Queensland, Australia |
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Stirling Range National Park |
II |
281371 |
Western Australia, Australia |
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Sundown National Park |
II |
30557 |
Queensland, Australia |
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Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park |
II |
332429 |
Northern Territory, Australia |
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Wilson's Promontory National Park |
II |
119279 |
Victoria, Australia |
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Yathong Nature Reserve |
Ia |
270264 |
New South Wales, Australia |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Wallacea |
East Timor, Indonesia |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 5A comparative analysis of some life-history traits between cooperatively and non-cooperatively breeding Australian passerines, ALDO POIANI and LARS SOMMER JERMIIN, Evolutionary Ecology, 1994, 8, 471-488 ♦ 6Food of some birds in eastern New South Wales: additions to Barker & Vestjens. Emu 93(3): 195–199 ♦ 7Olsen, J., Judge, D., Fuentes, E., Rose, AB and Debus, S. (2010). Diets of Wedge-tailed Eagles (Aquila audax) and Little Eagles (Hieraaetus morphnoides) breeding near Canberra, Australia Journal of Raptor Research 44: 50–61 ♦ 8Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London ♦ 9Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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