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Grey Wagtail
Male
Small blue-grey and yellow bird with a wagging long tail.
Motacilla cinerea ...
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Yellow wagtail hopping on lily Yellow wagtails have grey-green upperparts. Males are bright yellow below and on the face and females just have a yellow suffusion.
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Wagtail Birds
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A Beginners Guide to North American Wagtails ...
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Wagtails are never still for more than a few moments during daylight hours; even when perching they flick their long, black tails from side to side constantly, twisting about to better watch for prey.
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Pied Wagtail Motacilla alba
British Isles
There are several quite distinct subspecies of Pied Wagtail. The subspecies commonly found in Britain is Motacilla alba yarrellii in which the male has a glossy black back and the female has a dark grey back.
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White Wagtail
Editor's Note: White Wagtail has had a complex taxonomic history.
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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.
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Citrine Wagtail
Male Weigold's Citrine Wagtail (M. c. calcarata) in breeding plumage
Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur
(Rajasthan, India)
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AQUATIC WOOD- WAGTAIL (LOUISIANA WATER THRUSH). [Louisiana Waterthrush.] SEIURUS NOVAEBORACENSIS, Gmel. [Seiurus motacilla.] ...
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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.
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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.
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The EUROPEAN WHITE WAGTAIL (694. Motacilla alba) and EUROPEAN MEADOW PIPIT (698. Anthus pratensis) have been recorded as of accidental occurrence in Greenland.
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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 Motacilla ...
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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.
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broadbills, woodcreepers, ovenbirds, antbirds, tapaculos, cotingas, manakins, tyrant flycatchers, sharpbill, plantcutters, pittas, New Zealand wrens, asities, lyrebirds, scrub-birds, larks, swallows & martins, wagtails & pipits, ...
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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.
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Related to a group called the " wagtails", American Pipits share their habit of wagging their tails when walking over open territory.
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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.
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There are other passerine birds in our garden, like Barn Swallow (family Hirundinidae - Swallows), White Wagtail (family Motacillidae - Pipits and Wagtails), ...
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Mangoverde :: World Bird Guide :: Wagtails and Pipits :: Oriental PipitOriental Pipit Anthus rufulus Described by: Vieillot (1818) Alternate common name(s): Paddyfield Pipit, Indian PipitOld scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...
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Alström, P. and Mild, K. (2003) Pipits and wagtails of Europe, Asia and North America. London: Christopher Helm. Alström, P. and Olsson, U. (1995) A new species of Phylloscopus warbler from Sichuan Province, China. Ibis 137: 459-468.
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Literature cited. Bent, A.C. 1950. Life histories of North American birds. Wagtails, shrikes, vireos, and their allies. U. S. Nat. Mus., Washington, DC.
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 See also: Pipit, Flamingo, Warbler, Flycatcher, Sparrow
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