Common Name
Willie Wagtail
Comment
Very common and widespread on cleared land.
Stronghold population
False
Regionally significant/rationale
False
Restricted distribution/rationale
False
Historical abundance
Increasing
Local distribution
Common to abundant in most habitats except dense forests
Known location
Coomera, Bethania, Pimpama, Maudsland, Elanora, Worongary, Helensvale, Hinze Dam, Oxenford, Jacobs W
Other locality
Very common and widespread on grassland and in woodland. A beneficiary of forest clearing.
General ecology
Woodland, saltmarshes, farmland, parks, gardens.
Specific ecology
Needs short grassland on which to forage,
Habitat comment
In pre-European times the willie wagtail was probably confined to coastal saltmarshes and clearings within woodland. Forest clearing has benefited it.
