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Redgannet’s found a whole flock of White Wagtails outside of Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 5 and he is concerned that perhaps someone has misplaced their local birds.  If your local wagtails have turned up missing, please let him know.

The national bird of Latvia is the White Wagtail which, it being Latvia, they call  Balta Cielava.*  It was affirmed as the national bird in May of 1960 by the International Council for Bird Preservation while they were meeting in Tokyo.**  I have been unable to determine why or how that organization had anything to [...]

As an American birder I don’t get to see wagtails very often at all.  In fact, the only time I have been so fortunate to see wagtails were in October of 2007 when I was in Germany and just recently on the trip to Kazakhstan.  Sure, wagtails will show up and breed in Alaska but [...]