Australian Magpie-lark

Order Passeriformes; Family Grallinidae (Mudlarks); Scientific name: Grallina cyanoleuca; Common name: Australian Magpie-lark; Alternative common names: Mudlark or Peewee the latter being human translation of Magpie-lark’s call –Deformed feet by a disease to which this Magpie-lark succumbed  - Distribution in Australia: widespread and common throughout mainland Australia and Tasmania - Distribution outside Australia: southern New Guinea, Timor and eastern Lesser Sundas.