Studies on the Pied Currawong, Strepera graculina, in the Snowy Mountains

Abstract

The paper describes the results from banding and retrapping, with some associated measurements, in two winter populations of Pied Currawongs in the Snowy Mountains. Yellow gape is an immature character; males are the larger sex and the body weight of mature and immature birds declines during the winter. The age grouping of recoveries is different for the two populations in a way which suggests that breeding birds are rather sedentary and large movements occur only among non-breeding adults and immature birds.