EASTERN YELLOW WAGTAIL

Photographed on outskirts of Siem Reap, Cambodia, November 2023

 (* 896)                  EASTERN YELLOW WAGTAIL              Motacilla tschutschensis

CAMBODIA                    38

Common migrant to open habitats, including wet grasslands, golf courses, playing fields and bare ground, usually near water. 18 cm. Breeds across C and E Siberia, Mongolia, NE China, Japan to W Alaska; winters in S China, Taiwan and much of Southeast Asia, east to New Guinea and Australia.

EASTERN YELLOW WAGTAIL

Photographed at Broome water Treatment Plant at some distance; March, 2019

(*896)              EASTERN YELLOW WAGTAIL                Motacilla tschutschensis 

AUSTRALIA                   768

Breeds in Asia and has a foothold in North America in Alaska; populations migrate to South Asia and Australia. Insectivorous, inhabiting open country near water.

NOTE:

Current subspecies: 

angarensis:      South Siberian yellow Wagtail; breeds from Siberia to n Mongolia

leucocephala:  White-headed Yellow Wagtail; breeds nw Mongolia, China and Russia

taivana:            Green-crowned Yellow Wagtail; winter to Taiwan and Wallacea

macronyx:       Southeast Siberian Yellow Wagtail; winter nw of South China Sea

simillima         Bering Sea Yellow Wagtail; Kamchatka and Bering Sea

EASTERN YELLOW WAGTAIL

Photographed in Singapore November 2016

896                  EASTERN YELLOW WAGTAIL              Motacilla tschutschensis

SINGAPORE               (39)

Common migrant to open habitats, including wet grasslands, golf courses, playing fields and bare ground, usually near water. 18 cm. Breeds across C and E Siberia, Mongolia, NE China, Japan to W Alaska; winters in S China, Taiwan and much of Southeast Asia, east to New Guinea and Australia.