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Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava flavissima L 16-17cm. Long-tailed wetland bird. Sometimes feeds at feet of grazing animals. Sexes are dissimilar. Adult male has greenish yellow upperparts, yellow underparts, white outer tail feathers and whitish wingbars. Adult female is similar but less colourful. Juvenile has olive-buff upperparts and pale underparts, with whitish throat, yellow flush to undertail, white outer tail feathers and pale wingbars. Blue-headed Wagtail M.f.flava (race from mainland Europe) sometimes turns up; male has bluish cap and ear coverts, and white supercilium. Voice (all birds) Utters a distinctive tsree-ee call. Status Local summer visitor to damp, grazed grassland.
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