PASSERIFORMES: Rhipiduridae

Rhipidura leucophrys  

Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)
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© Vik Dunis 2018
Jarrahmond, VIC (Apr, 2018)

My neighbour, bird photographer Chris Townsend, first spotted this leucistic Willie Wagtail in a paddock beside the Snowy River.

The bird's extraordinary white-wing feathers are quite spectacular in flight and clearly differentiate it, even at quite a distance, from "normal" Willie Wagtails.

Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)

Willie Wagtail

Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)

Willie Wagtail

Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)

Willie and Wilma Wagtail do the wild thing

Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)

Willie Wagtail on nest

Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)

Willie and Lily

Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)

Willie Wagtail

Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)

Willie Wagtail

Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)

Willie Wagtail

Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)

Willie Wagtail on nest

Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)

Adult beside nest

Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)

Nestling being fed

Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)

Willie Wagtail

Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)

"Agro Wag"

Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)

Willie Wagtail

Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)

Willie Wagtail

Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)

Willie Wagtail

Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)

Leucistic Willie Wagtail

Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)

Willie Wagtail

Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)

Willie Wagtail

Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)

Willie Wagtail

Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)

Willie Wagtail

Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)

Willie Wagtail

Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)

Willie attacking Brown Falcon on Nest

Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)

Willie Wagtail