Eastern Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla tschutschensis)
About the Eastern Yellow Wagtail
The eastern yellow wagtail (Motacilla tschutschensis) is a small passerine in the wagtail family Motacillidae, which also includes the pipits and longclaws. It was formerly usually classified as a subspecies of the western yellow wagtail, but was split from it in 2003 when genetic data showed this classification to be paraphyletic with respect to the citrine wagtail. It breeds in the eastern Palearctic and Alaska and migrates to South Asia and Australia.
A real field recording of the Eastern Yellow Wagtail. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.
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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.
2 recordings on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×2 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Australia, Cambodia, Canada, China, Denmark, France and elsewhere · xeno-canto lists 332 recordings for this species in total.
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Species grouped by shared genus, family and range.