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English White Wagtail
Scientific (Motacilla alba)
Order PASSERIFORMES
Family (Latin) Motacillidae
Family (English) Wagtails, Pipits
Other name(s) Bergeronnette grise, Pied Wagtail and White Wagtail
Breeding Regions PAL
Breeding Range Subregions widespread, also w Alaska
Nonbreeding Range Subregions OR, AF
Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Andorra,Angola,Armenia,Australia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Bahrain, Bangladesh,Belarus,Belgium,Bhutan,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Bulgaria,Burkina Faso,Burundi,Cambodia,Cameroon, Canada,Cape Verde,Central African Republic,Chad,China,Comoros,Croatia,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark,Djibouti,Egypt,Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Estonia,Ethiopia,Finland,France,French Polynesia, Gabon,Gambia,Georgia,Germany,Ghana,Gibraltar,Greece,Greenland,Guinea,Hong Kong, Hungary,Iceland,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,India - mainland,Iran,Iraq,Ireland,Israel,Italy,Japan, Jordan,Kazakhstan,Kenya,Kuwait,Kyrgyzstan,Laos,Latvia,Lebanon,Liberia,Libya, Liechtenstein,Lithuania,Luxembourg,Macao,Macedonia,Malaysia,Mali,Malta,Mauritania,Moldova, Monaco,Mongolia,Montenegro,Morocco,Myanmar,Nepal,Netherlands,Niger,Nigeria,North Korea, Norway,Oman,Pakistan,Philippines,Poland,Portugal,Qatar,Romania,Russia,Rwanda, San Marino,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Serbia,Sierra Leone,Singapore,Slovakia,Slovenia,Somalia,South Korea, South Sudan,Spain,Sri Lanka,Sudan,Sweden,Switzerland,Syria,Taiwan,Tajikistan,Tanzania, Thailand,Togo,Trinidad and Tobago,Tunisia,Turkey,Turkmenistan,Uganda,Ukraine,United Arab Emirates,United Kingdom, United States - mainland,Uzbekistan,Vietnam,Western Sahara,Yemen,Zambia,Zimbabwe,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
yarrellii Ireland, Britain and coastal w Europe
alba se Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Is. through continental Europe to the Ural Mts., the Caucasus, c Asia and Middle East
subpersonata w Morocco
personata n Iran to sw Siberia, w Mongolia, nw China and w Himalayas
baicalensis sc Siberia to ne China
ocularis n Siberia to nw Alaska
lugens coastal Sea of Okhotsk, c Kamchatka, Commander Is. and Sakhalin (e Russia), n Korean Pen. and Hokkaido to Kyushu (n to s Japan)
leucopsis c, e China, Amurland and Ussuriland (se Russia), Korean Pen. and sw Honshu and n Kyushu (c to sw Japan)
alboides c, e Himalayas to s China, n Indochina and n Myanmar
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by Linnaeus, 1758
German Bachstelze
French Bergeronnette grise
Chinese 白鹡鸰
Japanese ハクセキレイ
Russian Белая трясогузка
Spanish Lavandera blanca
Portuguese alvéola-branca
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Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)