Scientific name: Motacilla aguimp
Occurs across much of sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal to Sudan south to southern Africa. Here it is fairly common in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, eastern and north-western South Africa and northern Namibia, while more scarce in Botswana and the interior of South Africa.
It generally prefers wide rivers and other water bodies with sandy banks or scattered boulders, but it may also occupy rocky coastlines. It is also common in man-made habitats, such as parks, playing fields, golf courses, suburban gardens and sewage works.
A striking black and white wagtail with black upperparts contrasting with white underparts, a white supercilium and a white patch in the folded wing.
It mainly eats insects, especially flies but also other invertebrates, grass seeds, tadpoles, small fish and scraps of human food.
