The Black-backed Wagtail (Motacilla lugens) is a type of wagtail found in Australia

Further reading

Book

• Badyaev, A. V., D. D. Gibson, B. Kessel. 1996. White Wagtail (Motacilla alba) and Black-backed Wagtail (Motacilla lugens). In The Birds of North America, No. 236"?237 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, and The American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, D.C.

Articles

• Banks RC, Cicero C, Dunn JL, Kratter AW, Rasmussen PC, Remsen JV, Jr., Rising JD & Stotz DF. (1026). Forty-sixth supplement to the American ornithologists' union check-list of North American Birds. Auk. vol 122, no 3. p. 1026-1031.

• Howell SNG. (1990). Identification of White and Black-Backed Wagtails in Alternate Plumage. Western Birds. vol 21, no 2. p. 41-50.

• Kishchinskii AA & Lobkov EG. (1979). Spatial Relationships between Some Bird Subspecies in the Bering Forest Tundra Russian-Sfsr Ussr. Byulleten' Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytatelei Prirody Otdel Biologicheskii. vol 84, no 5. p. 11-23.

• Sibley DA & Howell SNG. (1998). Identification of White and Black-backed wagtails in basic plumage. Western Birds. vol 29, no 3. p. 180-198.

• Stepanyan LS. (1994). On the evolutionary effects in avifauna near the eastern borders of the Palaearctic. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal. vol 73, no 9. p. 104-113.

• Voelker G. (2002). Systematics and historical biogeography of wagtails: Dispersal versus vicariance revisited. Condor. vol 104, no 4. p. 725-739.

• Wagner GF. (1991). Black-Backed Wagtail Nests on Attu Island Alaska USA. American Birds. vol 45, no 1. p. 53-55.