Saturday,
2 August 2025
The twitchy Willie Wagtail

This week’s featured bird is the Willie Wagtail, one of Australia's most widespread species.

These birds are constantly active and vocal, behaviours which led them to feature prominently in Indigenous lore.

For example the Bangerang call them Guritcha, meaning that they loiter at the edge of camps, listening to conversations then spreading the “gossip” elsewhere.

Locally they are still found...

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