Other bird species, such as the Yellow-rumped Thornbill ( Acanthiza chrysorrhoa ), Willie Wagtail ( Rhipidura leucophrys ), Southern Whiteface ( Aphelocephala leucopsis ), and ( less commonly ) Noisy Miner ( Manorina melanocephala ), often nest in the same tree as the magpie.

* Rhipidura leucophrys Willie Wagtail

The Willie Wagtail ( Rhipidura leucophrys ) of Australia is an unrelated bird similar in colouration and shape to the Japanese Wagtail.

The Willie ( or Willy ) Wagtail ( Rhipidura leucophrys ) is a passerine bird native to Australia, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, the Bismarck Archipelago, and eastern Indonesia.

Measuring 19. 0 – 21. 5 cm ( 7½ – 8½ in ) in length, the Willie Wagtail is contrastingly coloured with almost entirely black upperparts and white underparts ; the male and female have similar plumage.

The Willie Wagtail is insectivorous and spends much time chasing prey in open habitat.

Aggressive and territorial, the Willie Wagtail will often harass much larger birds such as the Laughing Kookaburra and Wedge-tailed Eagle.

The Willie Wagtail was first described by ornithologist John Latham in 1801 as Turdus leucophrys.

However, Willie Wagtail rapidly became widely accepted sometime after 1916.

' Wagtail ' is derived from its active behaviour, while the origins of ' Willie ' are obscure.

The Willie Wagtail is unrelated to the Eurasian wagtails of the family Motacillidae.

An adult Willie Wagtail is between 19 and 21. 5 cm ( 7. 5 – 8. 5 in ) in length and weighs 17 – 24 g ( 0. 6 – 0. 85 oz ), with a tail 10 – 11 cm ( approx 4 in ) long.

Widespread and abundant, the Willie Wagtail is found across most of Australia and New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, the Bismarck Archipelago, and eastern Indonesia.

The Willie Wagtail was released in Hawaii around 1922 to control insects on livestock, but the introduction was unsuccessful and the last sighting was at Koko Head in 1937.

The Willie Wagtail is at home in a wide variety of habitats, but avoids densely forested areas such as rainforest.

The Willie Wagtail is highly territorial and can be quite fearless in defence of its territory ; it will harry not only small birds but also much larger species such as the Australian Magpie ( Gymnorhina tibicen ), Raven ( Corvus coronoides ), Laughing Kookaburra ( Dacelo novaeguineae ), or Wedge-tailed Eagle ( Aquila audax ).

When harassing an opponent, the Willie Wagtail avoids the head and aims for the rear.

The Willie Wagtail perches on low branches, fences, posts, and the like, watching for insects and other small invertebrates in the air or on the ground.

The Willie Wagtail takes ticks from the skin of grazing animals such as cattle or pigs, even from lions asleep in a zoo.

The adaptability and opportunistic diet of the Willie Wagtail have probably assisted it in adapting to human habitation ; it eats a wide variety of arthropods, including butterflies, moths, flies, beetles, dragonflies, bugs, spiders, centipedes, and millipedes, and has been recorded killing small lizards such as skinks and geckos in a study in Madang on Papua New Guinea's north coast.

Evidence from the study in Madang suggested that the Willie Wagtail selectively fed nestlings larger prey.

Willie Wagtail incubating its eggs

The female Pallid Cuckoo ( Cuculus pallidus ) will lay eggs in a Willie Wagtail nest, although the hosts often recognise and eject the foreign eggs, so successful brood parasitism is rare.

It is mirrored by the individual Willie Lohmans, whose ideas and behavior patterns are so dependent and relativistic that they always coincide with those of the individual or group present and most important at the moment.

Their secondary hero is another pro, Willie Chisholm, who drank his lunch during another Open and tried to blast his way out of a rock-strewn gully.

In the liner notes on BDP's 1992 album Sex and Violence, KRS-One writes: " BDP in 1992 is KRS-One, Willie D, and Kenny Parker!

He is one of ten San Francisco Giants to appear on the cover, along with Kelly Downs, Rick Reuschel, Willie Mays ( nine times ), Alvin Dark, Juan Marichal, Will Clark, Tim Lincecum ( twice ), Brian Wilson, and Buster Posey.

She is most famous for her cover version of the Little Willie John hit " Fever " written by Eddie Cooley and John Davenport, to which she added her own, uncopyrighted lyrics (" Romeo loved Juliet ," " Captain Smith and Pocahontas ") and her rendition of Leiber and Stoller's " Is That All There Is ?".

To me, Willie Mays is the greatest who ever played.

" Johnny Otis ' " Willie and the Hand Jive " ( 1958 ) is another example of this successful blend of 3-2 clave and R & B.

Willie Stargell is named the Series MVP.

The event is won by Willie Park Snr.

* Marty ( played by Natalie Portman ) — Conway family's neighbor, who is more forward in her approach to Willie.

Willie Rushton's blue plaqueHe is honoured by a Comic Heritage blue plaque at Mornington Crescent tube station, a reference to the game Mornington Crescent on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.

One of the few musical instruments invented entirely in the United States is the Zydeco Frottoir ( Zydeco Rubboard ), a distillation of the washboard into essential elements ( percussive surface with shoulder straps ) designed by Clifton Chenier and built by Willie Landry in 1946.

Bettie Page is tied and spanked in an image from John Willie | Bizarre.

Stein's writing can be placed in three categories: " hermetic " works that have gone largely unread, best illustrated by The Making of Americans: The Hersland Family ; popularized writing such as The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas ; and speech writing and more accessible autobiographical writing of later years, of which Brewsie and Willie is a good example.

Willie Howard Mays, Jr. ( born May 6, 1931 ) is a retired American professional baseball player who spent the majority of his major league career with the New York and San Francisco Giants before finishing with the New York Mets.

The inner spread ' infra-red ' photography is by Ed Caraeff, whose Beefheart vacuum cleaner images from this session also appear on Zappa's Hot Rats release ( a month earlier ) to accompany " Willie The Pimp " lyrics sung by Vliet.

Blind Willie Johnson is not a true overtone singer, according to the National Geographic, but his ability to shift from guttural grunting noises to a soft lullaby is suggestive of the tonal timbres of overtone singing.

Blind Willie is about a Vietnam veteran's penance after the war.

The main character in this story is Willie Shearman, and the story takes place over a single day in December 1983.

Grampa's voice is performed by Dan Castellaneta, who also voices numerous other characters, including Homer Simpson, Krusty the Clown, Barney Gumble, Groundskeeper Willie, Mayor Quimby and Hans Moleman.

" In " The Joy of Sect ", the episode in which the whole town of Springfield is deceived into joining a cult, Lovejoy kidnaps Homer with Groundskeeper Willie from the cult and violently hits him across the head numerous times hoping to knock him out.

Brett is one of four players in MLB history to accumulate 3, 000 hits, 300 home runs, and a career. 300 batting average ( the others being Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, and Stan Musial ).

This leads to some ambiguity as to which is the first Mickey Mouse cartoon, as Plane Crazy was the first to be produced while Steamboat Willie was the first to be released.

Willie the Giant is a giant that appeared in the Disney cartoons Mickey and the Beanstalk ( from the film Fun and Fancy Free, voiced by Billy Gilbert ) and Mickey's Christmas Carol ( voiced by Will Ryan ).