Willie Wagtail: Pair

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves)

Order:

Perching Birds (Passeriformes)

Family:

Fantail (Rhipiduridae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)

This Photo:

Pair

Other name:

Willy Wagtail

Thank you Reiner Richter, Andrew Allen & Jenny (8593) for confirming the id of this species for us

EXTRA - Photo Specific Information:
One wonders from this shot if the eyebrow is thicker in the male than the female? Or is it random?
General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere
Cheeky.
White brow, faint white cheek line, jet-black head, with wing colour trailing to dark brown.

This species is classed as

LC (Least Concern)

in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)

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