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Amur Wagtail* |
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Motacilla leucopsis |
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Description (10)
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Amur Wagtail
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Other Names (World)
Amur Wagtail, White-faced Wagtail
Family
Motacillidae (Pipits And Wagtails)
Size
18 - 19 cm
First Described (Guide)
Gould, 1838
Habitat
Stubblefields, freshwater wetlands, sewage ponds, wharves, lawns.
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Breeds middle Amur Basin, south-eastern Russia, south through Ussuriland, northern-central, north-eastern and eastern China and Korea to south-western Japan and taiwan, winters south to eastern and south-eastern Asia, including southern China, most of Indochina south to central Thailand, Burma, Bangledesh, northern and north-eastern India and Nepal, occasionally Japan, Indonesian Archipeligo and Australia.
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Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.
Status NR
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
Subspecies
No subspecies.
White Wagtail (Motacilla alba) and Black-backed Wagtail (Motacilla lugens) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped into Motacilla alba following AOU (2005). Motacilla alba (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) was split by Sangster et al. (1998) into White Wagtail (Motacilla alba), Himalayan Wagtail (Motacilla alboides), Baikal Wagtail (Motacilla baicalensis), Amur Wagtail (Motacilla leucopsis), East Siberian Wagtail (Motacilla ocularis), Masked Wagtail (Motacilla personata) and Moroccan Wagtail (Motacilla subpersonata) but this treatment is not followed by the BirdLife Taxonomic Working Group because no vocal, morphological or phylogenetic evidence is provided by Sangster et al. (1998) and Alström et al. (2003) notes that all contiguously distributed subspecies of White Wagtail (Motacilla alba) interbreed. Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993) and Sangster et al. (1998) also split Afghan Snowfinch (Pyrgilauda theresae) from White Wagtail (Motacilla alba) but these taxa are also lumped following AOU (2005).
Considered by some authors as a subspecies of White Wagtail (Motacilla alba).
Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of White Wagtail (Motacilla alba).
References
See References.
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