英:['kʌrəwɒŋ]
美:['kʌrəwɒŋ]
英:['kʌrəwɒŋ]
美:['kʌrəwɒŋ]
noun
any of several loud-voiced fruit-eating Australian birds constituting the genus Strepera of the family Cracticidae called alsobell magpie
native name in Australia
1 To explore how this sophisticated ruse works, biologist Branislav Igic, then at the Australian National University, and his colleagues positioned a taxidermied currawong near thornbill nests while broadcasting nestling distress calls.
2 At a fraction the size of a currawong, the diminutive songbird can't rely on its might to spook the nest-raiding bandits.
3 According to the research team, the grasswren and currawong probably disappeared early in the 20th century.
4 When a pied currawong goes looking for brown thornbill nestlings to eat, the thornbill parents call wolf—or, actually, they call hawk.
5 The false alarms fool the currawong into thinking that its own predator, the brown goshawk, is nearby.
1 钟鹊科