Pied wagtail

The pied wagtail are black and white relatives to white wagtails, they have 30cm of wingspan and weigh about 27 grams. Pied wagtails are named because of their long tails that are constantly wagging tail. People are why they do this including: communication, removing insects and a leading theory is it’s them saying to predators “You can’t get me!”Most urban pied wagtail live in car parks, but others live in parks, beaches, wastelands and banks of rivers and lakes. They live across Europe, Northern Africa, Asia and occasionally Western Alaska. Southern species don’t really migrate but will go to farm in the winter. Northern might even go to Africa in winter. The majority of the pied wagtail diet is insects, mostly files but if bugs aren’t available they eat seeds and food scraps. 

In mid April Females make a nest of twigs, grass, leaf litter and moss which are made cosy with hair, wool and feathers walls and other hard crevices. The females lay five or six eggs that are blue white, speckled brown. Incubation lasts for 12-14 days. The babies are fed in the nest until they two weeks old and are full fledged. A baby’s feathers are fluffy and grey. When they are older they can follow their parents, begging for food for two or three weeks. After that they will leave their parents and it starts again. The parents will nest about twice a year.