Wagtail in Nigeria (1 Viewer)

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Dan drough

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• Jul 2, 2004

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Another picture from Bonny Island - SE Nigeria at the end of the Niger (S of Port Harcourt). Taken on 01 Jan 2003.
A Yellow Wagtail - (I think) but which race?

 

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Dan drough

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• Jul 2, 2004

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Another pic of the same bird -

 

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Michael Frankis

conehead

• Jul 2, 2004

• #3

I'd tentatively say thunbergi, but that's not definite

Michael

 

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Edward woodwood

Member

• Jul 2, 2004

• #4

reasonable suggestion from the pic though Michael

 

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Dan drough

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• Jul 2, 2004

• #5

I think so as well but the feathers are a bit rough! Faint supercillium etc but I don't have a good wagtail book (too tedious for my taste) like immature gulls etc but when you do get one its nice to know for sure.
According to the excellent and indispensable BOU "The Birds of Nigeria" by Ellwood et al (2nd Ed) M. f. flava "is widespread and predominant, thunbergi, iberiae, cinereocapilla, feldegg and superciliaris, more local and less numerous. Claims for other races, notably flavissima, are not substantiated.
the racial distribution pattern is complex. About 40,000 have been ringed in Nigeria and recoveries are numerous in N. Africa from Morocco to Libya and in Europe from France to Turkey north to Finland and Russia. Birds ringed in Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, Poland, Italy, Sweden and Russia have been recovered in Nigeria."

Therefore, by % it is worth looking closely at M. f. flava as well.

Unfortunately I don't have Vol 4 of Birds of Africa - anyone got one for sale?

 

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Dan drough

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• Jul 2, 2004

• #6

How do you use italic icon for a Latin name - I only rabged on the name but the whole paragraph has gone?

 

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Edward woodwood

Member

• Jul 2, 2004

• #7

Dan

try www.birdbooksdirect.com for some Birds of Africa

they had some recently

head pattern looks ok to me for thunbergi - nice and grey with dark lores and ear covs

 

IanF

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• Jul 2, 2004

• #8

Dan drough said:

How do you use italic icon for a Latin name - I only rabged on the name but the whole paragraph has gone?

Click to expand...

Hi Dan,

Click on the 'edit' button of your post and you will see the formatting I used. Edit it again to get it how you want it.

 

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Dan drough

Well-known member

• Jul 2, 2004

• #9

Oh dear Tim
I can see another few hundred going down thge Swanee here - thanks.