Wagtails, Pipits

Western Yellow Wagtail

Motacilla flava

The Western Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava) is an 18 g grassland bird that eats mostly insects and other invertebrates. It migrates.

Family

Wagtails, Pipits

Order

Passeriformes

Weight

18 g

Habitat

Grassland

Diet

Invertebrates

Migration

Migrant

Countries recorded

106

Recorded in Sweden, Spain, France, Denmark, United Kingdom, India, Netherlands, Finland, Norway, Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Israel, Russia, Poland, Taiwan, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Estonia, Kenya, Italy, United Arab Emirates, Ukraine, Austria, Morocco, Czechia, Hungary, Cyprus, Uganda, Romania, Georgia, Ethiopia, Egypt, Switzerland, Senegal, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Oman, Belarus, Gambia, Croatia, Serbia, South Africa, Tanzania, Slovenia, Luxembourg, Lithuania, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Zimbabwe, Slovakia, Nigeria, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Ghana, Sri Lanka, Latvia, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Malta, Pakistan, Mongolia, China, Qatar, Åland, Albania, Algeria, Nepal, Botswana, Jordan, Tunisia, Rwanda, Cameroon, Palestine, Montenegro, Democratic Republic of the Congo, XK, Mauritania, Libya, Lebanon, Benin, North Macedonia, Isle of Man, Kyrgyzstan, Sudan, Liberia, Mozambique, Zambia, Ireland, United States, Bosnia and Herz., Afghanistan, Republic of Korea, Iraq, Djibouti, Namibia, Guinea-Bissau, Bahrain, Chad, Tajikistan, JE, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, EH, Republic of the Congo.

Where to see it: Ras Ghareb sewage ditch (Egypt); Ras Shukeir Sewage Works (Egypt); Atyrau · Ural River (Kazakhstan); Dubai Pivot Fields (historical) (United Arab Emirates); M9 Bridge over Sitnica River (Kosovo).

Photo: (c) Вячеслав Юсупов, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist