Black-faced Cuckoo-shrikes have a black face and throat, blue-grey back, wings and tail, and white underparts. They are slender, attractive birds. They have a curious habit of shuffling their wings upon landing, a practice that gave rise to the name "Shufflewing", which is often used for this species. This shuffling is also carried out by most other species in this family. Young birds resemble the adults, except the black facial mask is reduced to an eye stripe. The Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike is found in almost any wooded habitat, with the exception of rainforests. It is also familiar in many suburbs, where birds are often seen perched on overhead wires or television aerials. Black-faced Cuckoo-shrikes feed on insects and other invertebrates. These may be caught in the air, taken from foliage or caught on the ground. In addition to insects, some fruits and seeds are also eaten. Black-faced Cuckoo-shrikes may mate with the same partner each year, and may use the same territories year after year. The nest is remarkably small for the size of the bird. It is a shallow saucer of sticks and bark, bound together with cobwebs. Both partners construct the nest and care for the young birds. (Source: Birdlife Australia, n.d.).

The White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike is a grey bird with a black band between eye and beak. Eye is black. In males this is dark black, in females it is grey. Eye is brown, bill and feet black. Length is 26 to 28 centimetres. Upper parts are mainly grey (head, neck and upper back). Tail feathers are dusky grey tipped white. Upper breast is pale grey. Underpart colour are nearly pure white. White-bellied Cuckoo-shrikes live in open eucalyptus forest and woodland. They forage on tree canopy and under-story shrubs flying from vantage perches and diving onto food - insects and fruit. When they land the birds settle their wings by flicking each separately into place. These birds live in family groups of three to five. Breeding takes place from August to March. The nest, built by both parents, is a shallow saucer of fine twigs and bark bound with spider web and moulded into the horizontal fork of a tree high above the ground. (Source: Australian Bush Birds, n.d.).

Most people have never seen a Cicadabird and even many of those who have heard one have never actually seen one. The reason for this is that the calls (of the eastern subspecies at least) carry for nearly a kilometre, from the tops of the trees where these birds spend much of their time - they are fairly shy so difficult to approach and also difficult to observe from below. They build one of the smallest nests in Australia, in horizontal fork up to 20 metres or so from the ground and they lay only one egg. The Cicadabird is a medium sized cuckoo-shrike, up to 25cm. The male is dark blue grey with black bill and dark legs. The female is brown grey above with white underside barred with fine black lines, the eye has a horizontal dark stripe through it. Juveniles are similar to females, but with some white streaking on brown upper parts and head, and less prominent eye stripe. They live in rainforest, eucalypt forest, woodlands and paperbark woodland and feed on insects, larvae and fruit.(Source: Graeme Chapman.), (Image: David Cook.).

The White-winged Triller is a small, compact bird with a short slender bill, long wings and a rather long tail with a rounded tip. In breeding plumage, the male and female are quite different. The breeding male is black above, on the head and body and wing coverts, and white below, on the lower face, body and under-wings. There is a wide white shoulder bar. Non-breeding males are brown with light underparts and a faint pale brow and dark line through the eye. The female is similar, though the male has a greyer rump. All birds have a netted pattern on the wings - black and white on the breeding male and dark brown to light brown in the eclipse plumage (non-breeding) male and the female. The White-winged Triller is found in open woodlands and forest, tree-lined waterways in semi-arid regions and the nearby scrub. This is mainly lightly timbered country with an open shrub layer and grassy ground-cover. The White-winged Triller forages busily for insects on the foliage of high trees and insects in the air. It also feeds on the ground, eating mainly insects, and fruit, seeds and occasionally nectar. Their call is a descending 'chiff-chiff-joey-joey-joey'. White-winged Trillers build small nests on horizontal branches or forks. The nest is a small frail cup of bark, grasses and fine material, bound with spiders' web. They sometimes use the empty nests of other birds, favouring the mud nests of Magpie-larks. They will breed in colonies, with many nests in one tree. Both parents incubate and brood the nestlings.(Source: Australian Museum, 2018).