Citrine Wagtail

Motacilla citreola quassatrix (Portenko, 1960)

		spring male
2010-04-03 Ile valley near Zhetygen	© Askar Isabekov

Description

The mantle color is same on werae; paler than on citreola; on size larger than werae. Male wing length 85.0-92.4 (89.0) mm.

Distribution

Probably this race nests in Altai on Chernaya Uba valley; on Markakol lake; in Dzhungarskiy Alatau and Tien Shan. During migration occurs in South and South-Eastern Kazakhstan.

References

Gavrilov E. I., Gavrilov A. E. "The Birds of Kazakhstan". Almaty, 2005. "Птицы Казахстана" том 3. "Наука". Алма-Ата, 1970. Э.И.Гаврилов. "Фауна и распространение птиц Казахстана". Алматы, 1999. А.Ф.Ковшарь "Певчие птицы". Алма-Ата, "Кайнар", 1983.