
I am finally getting around to posting some photos of the various subspecies of Yellow Wagtail that we saw during the Easter break on Ventotene island, off the coast south of Rome. We have ideas but some look like intergrades of some sort and additional opinions would be very welcome.
Thank you!
- 1 and 2: aberrant feldegg, or extremely rare xanthophrys?
- 3 and 3bis: flava? We are confused by the very narrow supercilium
- 4 again just a plain flava? The almost black ear coverts had us thinking about dombrovskii or tschutschensis?
- 5, we have this down as a cinereocapilla, the subspecies we are most familiar with, due to the white throat
- 6 and 7, bad shots of two different females - impossible to identify for us
- 8 and 9 feldegg again, but could the white below the black cap point to a melanogrisea?
- 10 another possible flava with very narrow supercilium, possibly the same individual as in 3, but taken at a different time
- 11, terrible out of focus shot... very small narrow supercilium behind the eye, dark head, yellow throat... thunbergi?
- 12, another female
- 13 presumably cinereocapilla?
Thank you!
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