Burung kicau (Songbirds)
White-browed Wagtail
Motacilla maderaspatensis
- langka
- 55 km/h
- Risiko rendah
Largest of the wagtails, an Indian river spirit pacing the ghats in tuxedo black and white. Its whistled song is a fixture of monsoon dawns.
- Populasi
- Population size not numerically quantified; described as fairly common to locally common (scarce in Bangladesh), with a stable population trend
- Habitat
- Freshwater wetlands — permanent rivers, streams and creeks are its primary habitat, also lakes and marshes; avoids forest; well adapted to urban areas, often nesting on rooftops and overhead water tanks
- Fakta menarik
- The White-browed Wagtail is the largest of all wagtail species (about 21 cm long) and is known in Hindi/Urdu as "khanjan," a name so associated with beauty that "khanjan-eyed" became a poetic phrase for lovely eyes; it was also traditionally believed to bear a mark of Vishnu's shaligram on its breast.
- Sebaran
- Endemic to the Indian subcontinent: found across India south of the Himalayas, Pakistan (east of the Indus system), Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar; a rare winter visitor to Sri Lanka. Typically below 1,000 m elevation, locally to 2,200 m in southern India
- Makanan
- Insectivorous — mainly orthopterans (grasshoppers/crickets), caterpillars, spiders, staphylinid (rove) beetles, and pentatomid (stink) bugs, foraged near water
- Ukuran
- 0,21 m
- Bentang sayap
- 0,3 m
- Masa hidup
- 2,7 tahun
