Sophia Suwandi

Perth Modern School

Year 8

Charcoal and pastel on paper

50 x 65 cm

This is the Djiti-Djiti (pronounced Chitti-chitti) or Willy Wagtail – a confident and cheeky black and white little native bird. Enshrined in Aboriginal dreamtime as the spy-bird, and a staple of Australian backyards, wagtails are known to recognise and interact with humans, which makes them endearing, along with their bobbing up and down movement and wag of their tail.