Wagtails
The wagtails are a genus of small passerine birds with long tails which they wag frequently. Motacilla, the root of the family and main generic name, means moving tail.
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Wagtail Birds
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A Beginners Guide to North American Wagtails ...
Wagtail, Cape Motacilla capensis Found: Africa
Photographed by: 1) Dick Daniels at Johannesburg, South Africa 2, 3) Cape Town, South Africa
Wagtail, Citrine Motacilla citreola Found: Europe, Asia, Africa
Photographed by: Borislav Borisov ...
Pied Wagtail Motacilla alba
British Isles
There are several quite distinct subspecies of Pied Wagtail.
Grey Wagtail
When I visited Breydon in early November, the most unexpected bird was a splendid grey wagtail heading inland across the marshes.
Grey wagtail
The grey wagtail is more colourful than its name suggests with slate grey upper parts and distinctive lemon yellow under-tail. Its tail is noticeably longer than those of pied and yellow wagtails. The... More...
Meadow pipit ...
Grey Wagtail
Male
Small blue-grey and yellow bird with a wagging long tail.
Motacilla cinerea ...
White Wagtail (Motacilla alba) at Falls Lake, Wake Co., NC
North Carolina's first White Wagtail was found at the Swim Beach at Sandling Beach State Recreation Area at Falls Lake by Jill Froning and Karen Bearden on 10/22/2002.
White Wagtail (Motacilla alba) is a local resident (Himalayas) and widespread winter visitor in India.
Size: 19 cm ...
Citrine Wagtail
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Rarer Gray Wagtail has yellow rump and white wing stripe.
Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc. Patuxent Bird Population Studies ...
AQUATIC WOOD-WAGTAIL (LOUISIANA WATER THRUSH).
[Louisiana Waterthrush.]
SEIURUS NOVAEBORACENSIS, Gmel.
[Seiurus motacilla.] ...
Wagtails and Pipits - Family Motacillidae
American Pipit Anthus rubescens. Fairly common in winter, spring, and fall in all regions. Found in open country, especially on plowed fields and mudflats. Low Conservation Concern.
Cape Wagtail
Africa Bird Guide Information: This common bird is unmistakable with its grey-brown upperparts, dark band across chest and white outer tail-feathers. No white on secondaries. ...
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Willy Wagtail, Superb Fairywren were also frequenting the puddles left by some rain the night before. Across the road from the dam were Black-tailed Nativehen.
Yellow wagtail (Motacilla flava)
The yellow wagtail (Motacilla flava) is a slender, long-tailed, long-legged bird most often seen walking on the ground near water courses... More 52 Images 0 videos ...
Yellow wagtail
Motacilla tschutschensis (but see text)
Yellowhammer
Yellowthroat
The yellowthroats are New World warblers in the genus Geothlypis.
Pipits and wagtails are in the order Passeriformes and family Motacillidae. The family Motacillidae is one of the most widespread in the world and is divided into six genera.
MOTACILLIDAE - Wagtails, Pipits
Photo-gallery: Yellow Wagtail (Kazakhstan)
THRAUPIDAE - Tanagers ...
Motacillidae - Pipits and Wagtails
Anthus
Anthus novaeseelandiae - Richard's Pipit (photo)
Anthus godlewskii - Blyth's Pipit
Anthus campestris - Tawny Pipit
Anthus hodgsoni - Olive-backed Pipit
Anthus trivialis - Tree Pipit ...
common name for a group of chiefly Eurasian and African birds that together with the wagtails constitute a subfamily of songbirds related to the Old World warblers and thrushes. Pipits are trim, slender birds with thin, pointed bills.
in Alaska included grouse (probably spruce grouse [Dendrapagus canadensis]) chicks, shorebirds, lesser golden-plover, red-necked phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus), whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) chicks and juveniles, and other small birds such as wagtail ...
broadbills, woodcreepers, ovenbirds, antbirds, tapaculos, cotingas, manakins, tyrant flycatchers, sharpbill, plantcutters, pittas, New Zealand wrens, asities, lyrebirds, scrub-birds, larks, swallows & martins, wagtails & pipits, ...
The family Motacillidae are passerines known as the Wagtails and Pipits. Wagtails are more showy, pipits are drab, but both pump their tails up and down much of the time, like Spotted Sandpipers and others.
Related to a group called the "wagtails", American Pipits share their habit of wagging their tails when walking over open territory.
This family contains the pipits and wagtails. These are sparrow - sized ground birds. They are known for bobbing their long tails up and down or wagging them side to side. Their bills are thin and pointed.
There are other passerine birds in our garden, like Barn Swallow (family Hirundinidae - Swallows), White Wagtail (family Motacillidae - Pipits and Wagtails), ...
Wagtails and Pipits (MOTACILLIDAE)
Waxwings (BOMBYCILLIDAE)
Silky-Flycatchers (PTILOGONATIDAE)
Wood-Warblers (PARULIDAE)
Tanagers (THRAUPIDAE)
New World Sparrows and Allies (EMBERIZIDAE)
Cardinals, Grosbeaks, and Allies (CARDINALIDAE) ...
Plant Invasions: Studies from North America and Europe. Blackhuys Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Bent, A. C. 1950. Life histories of North American wagtails, shrikes, vireos, and their allies. U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 197.
 See also: Pipit, Flamingo, Warbler, Flycatcher, Sparrow
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