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Western Yellow Wagtail
Motacilla flava feldegg
(L 6.1")
Several subspecies ...breeds in the
Balkans, S to Turkey, Iran and Afghan
...winters in Nigeria to Sudan.
Little trotty wagtail he went in the rain,
And tittering, tottering sideways he neer got straight again,
He stooped to get a worm, and looked up to get a fly,
And then he flew away ere his feathers they were dry.
(John Clare, 1793-1864)
Lake near Burgas
Bulgaria
31Aug2009
N Bulgrian coast
near Romania
05Sept2009
Lake Kirkini
Greece
17May2015
Greece
© Wikipedia
Motacilla is Greek for wagtail, a bird
mentioned by Hesychius; flava is Latin
for golden-yellow; feldegg is after
Colonel Baron Christoph von Feldegg,
Austrian naturalist.
female
© Boris N.
Veprintsev
Macaulay
Library