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WILLIE WAGTAIL FACTS |
Description
The Willie Wagtail is black above with a white belly. Has black throat and white eyebrows.
Size
20cm
Habitat
open forests, woodlands, parks and gardens
Food
insects caught on the ground and in the air
Breeding
nest is a neatly woven cup of grasses, covered with spider web and lined with grass and hair. Lays 3 eggs.
Range
most of eastern and south-eastern Australia and northern Tasmania
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Passeriformes | | Family: | Monarchidae | | Genus: | Rhipidura | | Species: | leucophrys | | Common Name: | Willie Wagtail |
Relatives in same Genus
Grey Fantail (R. albiscapa)
Rufous Fantail (R. rufifrons)
Northern Fantail (R. rufiventris)
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