African Pied Wagtail (Motacilla aguimp) [XC878222]
by Marc Anderson from Moa River Tiwai Island Wildlife Sanctuary, Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone (song)
African Pied Wagtail (Motacilla aguimp) [XC137760]
by Bob Planque from Mainaro, Kibale National Park, Kamwenge, Western Region, Uganda (song)
Subspecies
Thought to form a superspecies with White Wagtail (Motacilla alba), White-browed Wagtail (Motacilla maderaspatensis), Japanese Wagtail (Motacilla grandis) and Mekong Wagtail (Motacilla samveasnae). However, recent analyses of mitochondrial DNA, suggests that it is possibly more distantly related to this group, and may be a sister-taxon to a group containing White Wagtail (Motacilla alba) (with race lugens), Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava), Citrine Wagtail (Motacilla citreola) and Grey Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea).
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
vidua Sundevall, 1850 - Sierra Leone and southern Mali east to southern Sudan and north-western and eastern Kenya, south to Angola, northern and eastern Botswana and eastern South Africa (south to eastern Cape). Also lower Nile Valley (southern from southern Egypt), and discontinuously northern and eastern Sudan, western Eritrea, north-west, north-eastern and southern Ethiopia, and southern Somalia.
aguimp Dumont, 1821 - R Orange and R Vaal drainages in southern Namibia, central South Africa and Lesotho.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet