genus question settled…magpie is Cracticus tibicen
Hi all, recent genetic work on butcherbirds showed interesting results – essentially Black Butcherbird (with a deep split between NG and Aus BBB’s) and Aust Magpie are sister taxa having split after their ancestors diverged from other butcherbirds…and Silver-backed/Grey/Black-backed is polyphyletic/mushed….. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23219707 Apparently Anna Kearns has another paper coming on making sense of the Silver-backed/Grey/Black-backed … Read more