With black face and breast and mostly grey the black faced cuckoo shrike
Among similar species they do not have a look alike
Of wooded places and treed countryside
Nomadic birds they travel Australia wide
It is a pleasant churring like song they have to sing
Some people refer to them as shufflewing
Since on alighting on branch of tree
They do shuffle their wings momentarily
Arboreal birds which is common of their kind
They live on fruit and insects on the trees they do find
On flat nest of twigs lined with grass from the ground easily seen
The female lay two to three pink spotted eggs of green
By their distinctive appearance and familiar churring song
Once seen and once heard you will never again get them wrong.
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