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Citrine Wagtail Motacilla citreola

 
 

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winter adult feeding on mud
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Identification

Adult male Citrine Wagtails are quite gorgeous birds with dazzling yellow heads bordered by a neat black scarf. The yellow extends down the rest of the underparts, the upperparts are basically grey with white wing bars. In other plumages they show variable amounts of yellow but the impression is usually of a White Wagtail with a yellow face. To confirm that your bird isn't a Yellow Wagtail, look at how there is a complete pale border around the ear coverts. Juveniles in autumn can be completely devoid of yellow and so look even more like White Wagtails, but the lack of a broad, dark ring across the breast should prevent confusion.

Habitat

Passage visitor and scarce breeding species on marshes and lakesides.

Migration

The Citrine Wagtail is a migratory bird spending the winters in India and south-east Asia.

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Reported 07:50 02/09/10 Citrine Wagtail Kent Elmley Marshes RSPB 14:00 01/09/10 
  13:33 01/09/10 Citrine Wagtail Scilly St. Agnes 13:30 
  11:02 01/09/10 Citrine Wagtail Scilly St. Agnes   
Negative news 09:38 31/08/10 Citrine Wagtail Derbys Ogston Reservoir   
  17:04 30/08/10 Citrine Wagtail Derbys Ogston Reservoir 16:58 
  13:48 30/08/10 Citrine Wagtail Derbys Ogston Reservoir 13:15 
  10:43 30/08/10 Citrine Wagtail Derbys Ogston Reservoir 10:07 
Unconfirmed 09:42 30/08/10 Citrine Wagtail Derbys Ogston Reservoir 08:55 
  10:46 15/08/10 Citrine Wagtail E Yorks Spurn 09:05 
  09:03 15/08/10 Citrine Wagtail E Yorks Spurn 08:50 

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Citrine Wagtail, Conwy RSPB, 30th April 2008  Citrine Wagtail, Conwy RSPB, 30th April 2008  Webzine subscribers onlyNew content  Tuesday 6th May 2008
Reserve Manager Julian Hughes recounts finding a top patch bird.

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