Citrine Wagtail - Motacilla citreola
I need to start to pay more attention to all the wagtails at the pivot fields. I am staring at a plate in the Birds of the Western Paleartic with 38 individual head marking patterms for different races of yellow wagtail. This Citrine wagtail which is a different looks like a Grey Wagtail with an all yellow head really - its longer tailed than a Yellow wagtail. This is a real ''asiatic" bird and its Summer range seems to begin in the East where Grey Wagtail peters out. These are birds of the tundra and boreal swamps. Perhaps 2 million of these birds migrate up into Asian Russia each year each year.
Citrine Wagtail - Motacilla citreola
Pivot Fields, Dubai
25 February 2012
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