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

Size : 16.5–18 cm; Male 20–24·6g,

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

Subspecies and Distribution

Motacilla alba yarrellii (Gould, 1837) – British Pied Wagtail
– Britain and Ireland, possibly also N parts of W Europe; partial migrant, winters S to NW Africa.
Motacilla alba subpersonata (Meade-Waldo, 1901) – Moroccan Wagtail
– NW Africa (W Morocco).
Motacilla alba alba (Linnaeus, 1758) – White-faced Wagtail
– 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.
Motacilla alba dukhunensis (Sykes, 1832)
– 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.
Motacilla alba persica (Blanford, 1876)
– NC & W Iran (S Elburz Mts, Zagros Mts).
Motacilla alba ocularis (Swinhoe, 1860) – Siberian Wagtail
– N & NE Siberia (E from Taymyr Peninsula and R Yenisey, S to Lensk region, Stanovoy Mts and N Kamchatka) and extreme NW USA (W Alaska); winters S Asia E from NE Indian Subcontinent.
Motacilla alba personata (Gould, 1861) – Masked Wagtail
– C Asia from Transcaspia and N Iran E to S Russia (W Sayan Mts), W Mongolia, extreme NW China (NW & W Xinjiang) and S to N Afghanistan, N Pakistan and Kashmir; winters Iran and E Arabia E to Indian Subcontinent.
Motacilla alba baicalensis (Swinhoe, 1871) – Baikal Wagtail
– SC Siberia (upper R Yenisey E to Stanovoy Mts) S to Mongolia and NE China (NE Inner Mongolia); winters N India E to SE China and C Indochina.
Motacilla alba lugens (Gloger, 1829) – Black-backed Wagtail
– SE Russia (from S coasts of Sea of Okhotsk, Sakhalin, C Kamchatka and Commander Is) S to N Korea and Japan; winters Myanmar E to SE China, Taiwan and S Japan.
Motacilla alba leucopsis (Gould, 1838) – Chinese Wagtail
– C & E China (Qinghai E to Heilongjiang and W Zhejiang, S to N Guangxi and N Guangdong), Russian Far East (Amurland, Ussuriland), Korea and SW Japan (SW Honshu, N Kyushu); winters S Asia E from N India.
Motacilla alba alboides (Hodgson, 1836) – Himalayan Wagtail
– Himalayas (E from NE Pakistan), S China (S Xizang, S & SE Qinghai E to S Shaanxi, S to Yunnan and Guizhou), N Myanmar, extreme N Laos and extreme N Vietnam; winters in foothills and S to Bangladesh and N Thailand.