Citrine Wagtail

Motacilla citreola quassatrix (Portenko, 1960)

		male
2011-06-14 Lake Zerlukol-Nur, Altai Republic.	© Sergey Pisarevskiy

Description

Large and paler than citreola, with larger bill. Male has narrower black strip in nape, white tips in large and middle coverts and in tertials are broader. Summer and autumn adults looks like citreola in same plumage, but paler with bright and broad white egdes of wing feathers.

Distribution

Mountains of Altai and Southern Tuva, area near Baikal lake.

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