How to Identify: Common Black & White Aussie Birds

Learn to identify the most common black-and-white birds across Australia: the Willie Wagtail, Australian Magpie, Magpie-lark, Butcherbirds and Pied Currawong. We cover how to identify by sight and by ear. Plenty of bird photos, including of baby birds.

Bird Calls for Practicing:

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00:00 - Start
00:55 - Willie Wagtail
02:44 - Song: Willie Wagtail
02:56 - Australian Magpie
04:54 - Song: Australian Magpie
05:23 - Magpie-lark
07:15 - Song: Magpie-lark
07:24 - Butcherbirds
08:49 - Song: Pied Butcherbird
09:05 - Pied Currawong
10:54 - Song: Pied Currawong
11:02 - Size Comparison
11:54 - Cheatsheet
12:15 - Closing

[buttercxpdraws]

Excellent video! I’m just getting into bird watching and love all of these ❤

[xenxike]

These birds are awesome, have had butcherbirds on my lap, magpies bringing their babies to our house year after year, a couple of peewees visiting every day on the doorstep for a snack.We mix up mince meat with a powder called Insectivore, has ground up insects, minerals and vitamins as you should never feed them a diet of plain mince….The beautiful sounds from these birds are music to the ears.Never chase magpies as they could be your next backyard friends….

[GreenTeaViewer]

I knew all of these by sight except the Currawong. I'm not quite sure why I've overlooked these here in SEQ. Either I haven't run into them as often as the others, or I misidentified them. Anyway, great video!

[andyossie]

Well, ...3 things i learned today... 1 the difference between male and female, 2 the black and white crow is a currawong, and 3 the sound of the currawong which is what I've heard many times over the years but never knew what the bird was that made the sound! 😄

[Corvid]

I adore Australian Magpies! Their call reminds me of trying to listen to a corrupted MP3 file 😂

[justicetruthvegan]

Thank you very much, very kind of you.. A wild magpie feeds from my balcony on RAW VEGANIC food up to 20 times a day.
It is very friendly.
I backpackers around Byron Bay NSW for 6 months about 33/34 years ago.

[michelleduncan]

What about SA's bird emblem the shrike, I would have thought that this bird deserved a mention.

[suchdevelopments]

Good day from Lismore, NSW. All of them come backyard, in Goonelabah.

[theburrellsshow]

im aussie but i feel like in my area piwis are more popular than magpies like they show up more often

[basilpunton]

Peewee, magpie lark, murray magpies, pied lark, mud lark. Only Peewee is really accurate, the others are misdirections. Neither magpie or lark are related to these.

[TheHornetRider]

What about White-winged Choughs? They're pretty common arent they?

[ladysecretz]

Great video. But magpies also love cashews and currawongs are actually larger than magpies.