Lord Howe Currawong (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Lord Howe Currawong (Strepera graculina crissalis), Lord Howe Island Currawong or Lord Howe Pied Currawong, is a large and mainly black passerine bird in the Artamidae family. It is endemic to Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea, part of New South Wales, Australia, and is a threatened subspecies of the Pied Currawong. The currawong is similar to the other subspecies of the Pied Currawong. It is generally a black bird with yellow eyes, white on the wing, undertail coverts, the base of the tail and tip of the tail. Compared with the nominate subspecies of eastern Australia it has a longer and more slender bill, less white on the wings and tail, and a paler iris.