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Communally roosting birds, the dusky woodswallow has a variety of chattering calls which are used in certain situations. The most distinctive of these calls is perhaps the one which is used when a predator or intruder approaches, which consists of a harsh mobbing call to warn others.
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Ecology and
Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Birds
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The nest of the dusky woodswallow consists of twigs,
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563:. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016.
609:Gibbons, Phillip and Lindenmayer, David (2002)
455:like. They have also been observed engaging in
890:London and New York: Dorling Kindersley, 1993.
883:, 2nd ed. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1998.
517:International Union for Conservation of Nature
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867:Handbook of the Birds of the World
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479:. It is positioned safely, behind
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799:"Animal facts: Dusky Woodswallow"
374:The birds live primarily in open
897:. New York: Facts on File, 1985.
735:Wild Places of Greater Melbourne
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869:Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 1992.
706:"Bird Finder:Dusky Woodswallow"
559:BirdLife International (2016).
349:Relations to other woodswallows
973:Artamus_(Angroyan)_cyanopterus
886:Harrison, Colin James Oliver.
459:, working as a group to rob a
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613:. CSIRO Publishing. p. 175.
434:Parent feeding chicks a wasp
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1297:Endemic birds of Australia
872:Dickinson, Edward C., ed.
243:, in eastern and southern
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656:"Dusky Woodswallow
561:Artamus cyanopterus
506:Conservation status
483:, and/or high in a
461:restless flycatcher
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179:Artamus cyanopterus
161:A. cyanopterus
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329:Description
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300:John Latham
264:woodswallow
233:subtropical
1281:Categories
1248:Q109578220
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446:and other
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376:eucalyptus
284:currawongs
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294:Taxonomy
286:and the
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268:misnomer
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107:Chordata
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