Me too! We have a fair few over here 😁 I even have a family of Babblers that come to my yard at my new house, as well as Apostlebirds. I got overly excited when they first came to visit!
Will check HANZAB (Aus bird bible) when back in the office next week.
I can’t remember if the genetics holds up (surely someone’s tested it by now), but if I recall correctly Apostles and WW Choughs got put together into Corcoracidae because of their cooperative breeding and identical nest-building. They look nothing like each other but behave the same.
Just our choughs here in Aus. The N Hemisphere choughs are totally different. Classic “let’s name all these new species after things they vaguely resemble from the UK”.
They are vaguely reminiscent of our Apostlebirds, who are also cooperative breeders. Though Apostlebirds are almost monotypic, sharing their family with only one other species, the White-winged Chough (they both make little mud cup nests).
Here in Aus (I’m my part anyway, we have so many variable seasons here), when we have a warm period around early sept followed by more cold we call it False Spring. I’m not sure I’ve noticed anything specific between hot and cold times, but I’ll be keeping an eye out for it now.
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Alt: A puppet monkey (?) in a green jumper looking left and right with big eyeballs.