Profile
In flight
Songbirds
White Wagtail
Motacilla alba
- mythic
- 85 km/h
- Least Concern
A long-tailed sprite of riverbanks and rain-soaked pavements, walking with the world's most cheerful tail-bob. Wherever water meets stone in Asia, this little ghost in monochrome is already there.
- Population
- very large, estimated 130 to 230 million mature individuals
- Habitat
- open ground, riverbanks, pastures, paddies, town squares
- Diet
- flying and ground insects, small invertebrates
- Size
- 0.185 m
- Wingspan
- 0.28 m
