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currawong

(ˈkʌrəˌwɒŋ)
n
(Animals) any Australian crowlike songbird of the genus Strepera, having black, grey, and white plumage: family Cracticidae. Also called: bell magpie
[from a native Australian name]
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
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Noun1.currawong - bluish black fruit-eating bird with a bell-like call
Australian magpie - black-and-white oscine birds that resemble magpies
genus Strepera, Strepera - bell magpies
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The six 'missing' birds are the white-breasted white-eye from Norfolk Island, whose disappearance was caused by rat predation; the western Victorian form of the pied currawong and the hooded robin from the Tiwi Islands, both decimated by changes in fire management practices; the thick-billed grasswren from Mice Springs and the southern form of the star finch that once occurred from Townsville to northern NSW, which were both affected by overgrazing; and the spotted quail-thrush from the Mt Lofty Ranges in South Australia, which was driven to probable extinction by habitat fragmentation.
(22) An early twentieth century term for the Pied Currawong.
Personally, his most successful Hobart race was in 1992 when, at the age of 68, he campaigned his own yacht Katinka, a Currawong 30 with the assistance of his two sons Paul and Peter.