Hybrid Wagtail, SE Kazakhstan (1 Viewer)

This Wagtail was photographed in mixed flock of different subspecies of Yellow Wagtail, Citrine Wagtail and Pipits. Bird is uncommon, it has black coloue in head like Black-headed Wagtail (Motacilla feldegg melanogrisea) but back colour is more greyish less yelow than in melanogrisea. Large white supercilium also uncommon, dark ear coverts may indicate to Citrine Wagtail. My guess is hybrid melanogrisea x citrinella.

Askar, the large amount of white in the wing coverts and tertials is strongly indicative of citreola IMO so, a hybrid M. f. melanogrisea x M. citreola would seem most likely. Here is a similar example http://orientalbirdimages.org/search.php?Bird_Image_ID=66340&Bird_ID=2087&Bird_Family_ID=&Location= I should add that melanogrisea is not always recognised, subsumed within feldegg by some authorities e.g IOC.

Grahame

Thank you very much, Grahame!