White-winged Chough
Corcorax melanorhamphos
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 4,759
- Most observed in
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The white-winged chough (Corcorax melanorhamphos) is one of only two surviving species of the Australian mud-nest builders family, Corcoracidae, and is the only member of the genus Corcorax. It is native to southern and eastern Australia and is an example of convergent evolution as it is only distantly related to the European choughs that it closely resembles in shape, and for which it was named.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “White-winged chough”.