Elanora Heights Primary School has researched

Endangered Australian Wildlife

as part of an Endangered Animals of the World project
organised by Cannelton Elementary School in Indiana, USA
and Primary School De Wadden of Haarlem, Netherlands.

Greyheaded Blackbird
Drawn by Julien 4F

Common Name : Greyheaded Blackbird -
sometimes called Norfolk Island Thrush

Scientific Name : Turdus poliocephalus poliocephalus

Habitat :
Subtropical rainforests of Norfolk Island.

Diet :
Eats insects and fruits.

Size :
Length of about 250mm.

Danger :

When the forests were cut down the Thrush learned to feed in grasslands but after 1920 it mated with the introduced European blackbird and produced sterile offspring and it might now actually be extinct.

Point of Interest

Email from Margaret Christian, on Norfolk Island ....

Last November whilst on holidays in New Zealand I saw a specimen of a Greyheaded blackbird in a display at the Auckland Museum. Three weeks ago I managed to borrow it from them for the Norfolk Island people to see, as none of the current generation have ever seen one, and now we have it, for a few months on the island.

Researched by :

Julien 4F

Reference:

CD called "Wildinfo Australia"
Windows Version
Australian Endangered, Vulnerable and Extinct Fauna.
Designed and produced by "Good Thinking" (Australia) Pty Ltd
Distributer :
DATAWORKS
81 Eildon Parade,
Rowville, Victoria, 3178, Australia
Margaret Christian
Senior Ranger
Norfolk Island National Park

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Elanora Heights Primary School has researched

Endangered Australian Wildlife

Greyheaded Blackbird Drawn by Julien 4F

Common Name : Greyheaded Blackbird - sometimes called Norfolk Island Thrush Scientific Name : Turdus poliocephalus poliocephalus Habitat : Subtropical rainforests of Norfolk Island. Diet : Eats insects and fruits. Size : Length of about 250mm.