Chestnut Quail-thrush
Female, Front
Southern Willie Wagtail
Eggs
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Animals
Plants
Info
| Chestnut Quail-thrush Female, Front | | Southern Willie Wagtail Eggs | | ||
Animals Plants Info |
-leucophrys.JPG "Southern Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura (Sauloprocta) leucophrys ssp leucophrys)") | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves) | ||||||||||||||
| Order: | Perching Birds (Passeriformes) | |||||||||||||||
| Family: | Fantail (Rhipiduridae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||||
| Species: | Southern Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura (Sauloprocta) leucophrys ssp leucophrys)| This Photo: | 🔍Nest🔎 | Other name: | Willy Wagtail | Thank you Reiner Richter, Andrew Allen & Jenny (8593) for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills, Coastal Areas and elsewhere Cheeky. White brow, faint white cheek line, jet-black head, with wing colour trailing to dark brown. The nest was on a low slung branch of a Melaleuca lanceolata tree, ~0.5m off the ground. Unfortunately a Grey Currawong later found the nest and ate the eggs.
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