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Baikal Wagtail* |
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Motacilla baicalensis |
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Description (5)
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Baikal Wagtail
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Other Names (World)
Baikal Wagtail, Swinhoe’s Wagtail
Family
Motacillidae (Pipits And Wagtails)
Size
18 - 19 cm
First Described (Guide)
Swinhoe, 1871
Habitat
Stubblefields, freshwater wetlands, sewage ponds, wharves, lawns.
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Breeds southern-central and southern Siberia, east to Stanovoy Ranges, south to central Mongolia and far north-eastern China, winters south to south-eastern Asia from northern India, Bangledesh, northern Burma, northern Thailand and southern China, possibly west to Iran and Afghanistan, and occasionally to Indonesian Archipeligo and possibly Australia, Japan and Pakistan.
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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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