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It’s March and most birders over here are eagerly  anticipating the arrival of the first spring migrants from whichever far-flung corner they’ve been wintering. In the meantime one of our earliest migrants and most familiar species is bobbing it’s tail northwards by the thousand. Many of ‘our’ British Pied Wagtails never reach far-flung corners, in [...]

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 [...]