Wagtail
Motacilla flava
22.5726, 88.3639
Field Notes
Description:
Typical tail wagging and restless running behaviour. However, only one bird of the pair has a yellow face. Maybe it is the male.
Habitat:
There was this paved drain alongside a new highway and just outside a newly made open air picnic area in Kolkata, India. A pair of these birds was foraging on the slope of the green verge leading to the busy highway.
Notes:
Little confused about whether this is Yellow or Citrine Wagtail. Going with Yellow. Happy to be corrected.
The taxonomy has been recently restructured.Plus there is hybridization.
http://www.oiseaux-birds.com/card-western-yellow-wagtail.html
Migratory...winter visitor to India. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Yellow-Wagtail-Early-winter-visitor…?
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Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedJanuary 29, 2018
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