Willie Wagtail - Rhipidura leucophrys
Portrait of male Willie Wagtail.
A pair of Willy Wagtails are almost ready to breed for the 3rd year in our back garden. Convenienly for them ( not for us) they build the nest on our cloth hoist and are occupying it now again after some repair work. The first 2 seasons they produced each time 3 young .This morning my wife observed the first copulation and we expect for them to lay the 1st egg in a day or two.
The willie wagtail is a passerine bird native to Australia, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, the Bismarck Archipelago, and Eastern Indonesia. It is a common and familiar bird throughout much of its range, living in most habitats apart from thick forest. Measuring 19–21.5 cm in length, the willie wagtail is contrastingly coloured with almost entirely black upperparts and white underparts; the male and female have similar plumage.
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