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    Grey-headed Wagtail

    Motacilla flava thunbergi (Billberg, 1828)

    Желтая трясогузка | Сары шақшақай
    2015-04-04
    Sorbulak.
    © Askar Isabekov

    Description

    The head is dark-grey, darker than on flava; the ear coverts are usually blackish not grey; white supercilium no or faint; the chin is yellow sometimes white.

    Distribution

    On migration occurs throughout in Kazakhstan. On Chokpak Pass migrates 1 April – 25 May and 2 September – 26 September; on Sorbulak lake 31 March – 25 May and 2 September – 23 September.

    References

    Gavrilov E. I., Gavrilov A. E. "The Birds of Kazakhstan". Almaty, 2005.
    "Птицы Казахстана" том 3. "Наука". Алма-Ата, 1970.
    В.К.Рябицев. "Птицы Урала, Приуралья и Западной Сибири". Екатеринбург, Изд-во Уральского университета, 2000.
    Э.И.Гаврилов. "Фауна и распространение птиц Казахстана". Алматы, 1999.

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    relative taxons

    Motacilla flava
    (Linnaeus, 1758)
    Motacilla flava beema
    (Sykes, 1832)
    Motacilla flava flava
    (Linnaeus, 1758)
    Motacilla flava zaissanensis
    (Polyakov, 1911)
    Motacilla flava leucocephala
    (Przevalski, 1887)
    Motacilla (flava x feldegg)
    (hb)
    Motacilla (flava x lutea)
    (hb)
    synonyms

    Motacilla flava borealis
    (Sundevall, 1842)
    Motacilla flava plexus
    (Thayer et Bangs, 1914)
    Motacilla flava angarensis
    (Sushkin, 1925)

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