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Peter Fuller wrote:
>> I suggested to Joel the possibility of Leaden Flycatcher and
Willie Wagtail, but he assures me that it had a black 'bib', and that the
general jizz of the bird was like that of a wagtail.
I think it far more likely that a
White/Black-backed Wagtail would be found on the tarmac of the Adelaide Airport
than a Leaden Flycatcher! The only way the latter would be seen in such environs
would be one that had been struck by a boeing. They are themselves rare vagrants
to South Australia anyway.
Conversely a Black-backed Wagtail was twitched
by many observers in the car park of the Glendale shopping complex in Newcastle
in April 1998, usually right outside the Lone Star Tavern. It is a bird
comfortable in human environments.
Given the evident experience of the observer with
wagtails the observation deserves a little more credence than it appears to be
receiving.
Cheers, AS
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