#1125 · 🐦 birds

Citrine Wagtail

🇳🇱 Citroenkwikstaart ·Motacilla citreola

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © egorbirder · CC BY 4.0
2. © Александр · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © Pavel Shukov · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Sergey Pisarevskiy · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
5. © PVidwansa · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Вячеслав Юсупов · CC BY 4.0
7. © Вячеслав Юсупов · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The citrine wagtail ( Motacilla citreola ) is a small songbird in the family Motacillidae.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 15,429iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
15,429 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Peter Simon Pallas in 1776 (250 years ago).