The other group, which includes genus Coracina (cuckoo-shrikes, cicadabirds and trillers), occurs in Africa, southern and Southeast Asia, Australia and islands in the west Pacific.

[3] The ground cuckoo-shrike is an uncommon species and is endemic to Australia, occurring in parts of all the mainland Australian states and territories.

[4] The immature ground cuckoo-shrike is similar in appearance to the adult, but has fine, broken black barrings on the throat and upper parts and dark eyes with a dark eye-line, instead of a black mask with pale yellow eyes.

[10] Despite their large range throughout Australia, they are an uncommon species, thinly distributed and probably nomadic, which can make it hard to predict their location and where they can be expected to be seen.

[4] The current population trend of the ground cuckoo-shrike is said to be decreasing, possibly due to declines in the Murray-Mallee region since the mid 1970s.

[11] Dolby and Clarke (2014) clearly lists and describes places where the ground cuckoo-shrike can be expected to be spotted.

[12] They spend a lot of their time foraging on bare open ground in small groups[4] for their food, which consists of mainly on insects.

[12] Their diet includes adult and larval arthropods such as praying mantis, grasshoppers, locust, ants and spiders.