Bird, Travel & Art Photos, Birding Sites, Bird Information: WHITE WAGTAIL, LAKE ELBERTA PARK, N LAKE BRANFORD RD, TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA, 1/10/2023

We can ID this bird as a White Wagtail as follows:

Overall a combination of black, white and gray
Black from mid-crown to nape
Dark stripe through eye from bill to side of neck
Black from sides of lower neck to breasts; rest of underparts is white
Mostly gray upperparts with two wide wingbars, one short and one long
Long tail

The White Wagtail is a very rare vagrant to Florida. It is a common bird in Europe, Asia and northern Africa. There are small numbers in the Western perimeter of Alaska in the Bering Strait region and it is rare in the Western Aleutian islands. The White Wagtail was first sighted at Lake Elberta on Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 2022.

The White Wagtail is a new species to our Photographic Life List, which now stands at 1,071.