Mountain Wagtail (Motacilla clara)
About the Mountain Wagtail
The mountain wagtail (Motacilla clara), also known as the long-tailed wagtail or grey-backed wagtail, is a species of wagtail of the family Motacillidae from sub-Saharan Africa. A slender, long tailed wagtail with light bluish grey upperparts and white underparts with a narrow black breast band. The wings are black with white feather edges and two white wing covert bars. The outer tail is white and the tail centre is black. The face is blackish broken up with a white supercilium and the eyelid. Juveniles are browner than adults. The mountain wagtail occurs in the Afromontane, from Guinea to Ethiopia south to South Africa. In southern Africa it is locally common in the north and eastern highlands of Zimbabwe and adjoining parts of Mozambique, southwards to the Eastern Cape.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 46 recordings for this species: 4 CC BY-NC-SA · 1 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- African Pied WagtailMotacilla aguimprecording
- Citrine WagtailMotacilla citreolarecording
- Eastern Yellow WagtailMotacilla tschutschensisrecording
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerearecording
- Western Yellow WagtailMotacilla flavarecording
- White WagtailMotacilla albarecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.