Birds Thru My Eyes : MALAYSIA: White Wagtail

Saturday, 15 December 2018

White Wagtail

Order - Passeriformes
Family - Motacillidae (Pipits & Wagtails)

White Wagtail

Motacilla alba

白鹡鸰 (bái jílíng)

Malay : Pipit-Batu Murai Erasia

Japanese : ハクセキレイ (haku-sekirei) /

タイリクハクセキレイ (tairiku haku-sekirei)

Kanji 日語漢字 : 白鶺鴒 / 大陸白鶺鴒

  Extent of Occurrence (resident/breeding) : 37,800,000km²
  Extent of Occurrence (non-breeding) : 101,000,000km²
  Migratory Status : Full Migrant
  Breeding Endemic : No

Size : 16.5–18 cm; Male 20–24·6g,

Female 17.6–21.9 g (to 27.9 g when laying)

Subspecies (10) and Distribution

EBIRD GROUP (POLYTYPIC)

White Wagtail (White-faced) Motacilla alba alba/dukhunensis

Motacilla alba alba (Linnaeus, 1758)
– Breeds SE Greenland (irregular), Iceland, Faroe Is and throughout continental Europe (has bred Britain and Ireland) E to Urals, Turkey and Levant; winters in S part of range and S to W & E Africa, Arabia and SW Asia. [type locality = Sweden]; overwinters from western Europe south to central Africa and east to India; vagrant to eastern North America, where recorded in Québec (Savard 2002) and North Carolina (Bearden et al. 2004).
Motacilla alba dukhunensis (Sykes, 1832)
– Occupying the eastern portion of the range of that subspecies from C Russia (Ural Mts E to Taymyr Peninsula) S to Caucasus, NW Iran, Kyrgyz Steppes and foothills of Altai Mts; winters Middle East E to Indian Subcontinent.

EBIRD GROUP (MONOTYPIC)

White Wagtail (British) Motacilla alba yarrellii

Motacilla alba yarrellii (Gould, 1837)
– Breeds on the British Isles and, occasionally, on the western coast of continental Europe (Vaurie 1959a) [type locality = Great Britain]; overwinters chiefly on the Iberian Peninsula and in northwestern Africa.

EBIRD GROUP (MONOTYPIC)

White Wagtail (Siberian) Motacilla alba ocularis

Motacilla alba ocularis (Swinhoe, 1860)
– Breeds in northern and northeastern Siberia east to western Alaska; overwinters south to southeastern Asia [type locality = Fujian, China], with vagrants recorded on the Pacific Coast of North America south to southern Baja California and inland to Arizona and Sonora (Sibley and Howell 1998, Hamilton et al. 2007).

EBIRD GROUP (MONOTYPIC)

White Wagtail (Moroccan) Motacilla alba subpersonata

Motacilla alba subpersonata (Meade-Waldo, 1901)
– Resident in northwestern Morocco [type locality = Rehamna, Morocco]; vagrant to Portugal.

EBIRD GROUP (MONOTYPIC)

White Wagtail (Masked) Motacilla alba personata

Motacilla alba personata (Gould, 1861)
– Breeds in south-central Asia south to Persia [type locality = eastern and northern Indian Subcontinent, fide Alström and Mild 2003:482]; overwinters in Iran and Afghanistan east to Bangladesh and southern Nepal.

EBIRD GROUP (MONOTYPIC)

White Wagtail (Transbaikalian) Motacilla alba baicalensis

Motacilla alba baicalensis (Swinhoe, 1871)
– Breeds in central Siberia and northern Mongolia and northwestern China [type locality = eastern Asia]; overwinters from northern India east to southern China.

EBIRD GROUP (MONOTYPIC)

White Wagtail (Black-backed) Motacilla alba lugens

Motacilla alba lugens (Gloger, 1829)
– Breeds in eastern Siberia on the Kamchatka Peninsula and in Ussuriland as well as on Sakhalin and in northern Japan [type locality = Kamchatka, Russia]; overwinters in Japan and eastern Asia and has wandered along the Pacific Coast south to southern California (Sibley and Howell 1998, Hamilton et al. 2007).

EBIRD GROUP (MONOTYPIC)

White Wagtail (Chinese) Motacilla alba leucopsis

Motacilla alba leucopsis (Gould, 1838)
– Breeds in southeastern Russia and northeastern China to Korean Peninsula, southwestern Japan, Taiwan, and southeastern China; overwinters in southern China (including Taiwan) and through Indochina, west to northeastern India and Nepal, rarely in Japan [type locality = India]; vagrant to Australia and possibly to Oregon, where two adult males were reported as this subspecies (Nehls 2002) but were perhaps M. a. lugens (Marshall et al. 2003a, Hamilton et al. 2007).

EBIRD GROUP (MONOTYPIC)

White Wagtail (Hodgson's) Motacilla alba alboides

Motacilla alba alboides (Hodgson, 1836)
– Includes M. a. albula Koelz, 1954. Partly resident in southern China and northern Laos, west to northern Myanmar and northeastern Pakistan [type locality = Nepal]; some overwinter south to northern India, Bangladesh, northern Thailand, and northern Vietnam.

Distribution Map