Profile
In flight
Songbirds
Citrine Wagtail
Motacilla citreola
- rare
- 55 km/h
- Least Concern
A breath of lemon light on tundra marshes, walking the wet edges with a bobbed tail and a thin metallic call. By winter it has fled to the warm rice fields of South Asia.
- Population
- widespread Eurasian migrant
- Habitat
- wet meadows, marsh edges and shallow water across central and northern Asia, wintering south to India and Southeast Asia
- Diet
- insects, small aquatic invertebrates
- Size
- 0.17 m
- Wingspan
- 0.25 m
