White-breasted Woodswallow
Artamus leucorynchus
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 4,774
- Most observed in
- 🇦🇺 Australia
Description
The white-breasted woodswallow (Artamus leucorynchus) is a medium-sized passerine bird which breeds from the Andaman Islands east through Indonesia and northern Australia. The name "woodswallow" is a misnomer as they are not closely related to true swallows. Instead, they belong to the family Artamidae, which also includes butcherbirds, currawongs and the Australian magpie.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “White-breasted woodswallow”.