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 LC    Mountain Wagtail* Id (Atlas):
    Motacilla clara

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Mountain Wagtail, Grey-backed Wagtail, Gray-backed Wagtail, Long-tailed Wagtail

Family
Motacillidae (Pipits And Wagtails)

Size
19 cm

First Described (Guide)
Sharpe, 1908

Range (Guide)
Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Mauritania.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
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Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (42)...)

 
Mountain Wagtail (Motacilla clara) [XC366158]
     by Simon Carter from Zomba Plateau, Southern Region, Malawi (song)

 
Mountain Wagtail (Motacilla clara) [XC268615]
     by Tim Cockcroft from Jemma Valley, Ethiopia (call)

Subspecies
Initially named as Mtacilla longicauda, but that name invalid, as preoccupied. May form a superspecies with Grey Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea). Subspecies chapini possibly inseparable from torrentium.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

  • chapini Amadon, 1954   -  South-western Mali, southern Sierra Leone, Liberia and western Ivory Coast, and from south-eastern Nigeria and Cameroon south to Gabon and east to Central African Republic and northern and southern PRCongo. Also Bioko I (Fernando Póo).
  • clara Sharpe, 1908   -  Highlands of Ethiopia.
  • torrentium Ticehurst, 1940   -  Eastern Uganda, central and southern Kenya, and from eastern and southern DRCongo, Rwanda and north-western and northern Tanzania south to central and south-western Angola (south to Namibe), Zambia, northern Zimbabwe and western Mozambique, also in mountains of eastern South Africa and Swaziland.



References
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Files:
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