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

WESTERN YELLOW WAGTAIL

Subspecies thunbergi, March 2017

1106                WESTERN YELLOW WAGTAIL                 Motacilla flava

SRI LANKA             128

Found in damp grasslands and marshes. 18 cm.  Four races have been recorded in Sri Lanka; thunbergi is common winter migrant throughout Sri Lanka, mainly in dry lowlands; other races are rare to very rare migrants to dry lowlands.