Motacilla flava [flavissima or lutea] (Western Yellow Wagtail [Yellowish-crowned or Yellow-headed])

Western Yellow Wagtail [Yellowish-crowned or Yellow-headed]

Motacilla flava [flavissima or lutea] (= Motacilla flava flavissima) (Blyth, E 1834)

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Classification

Order:
  Passeriformes
Family:
  Motacillidae
Genus:
   Motacilla
Scientific:
  Motacilla flava flavissima

Original description

Citation:
(Blyth, E 1834)

Reference:
Mag. Nat. Hist. [Loudon] 7 p.342

Protonym:
Budytes flavissima

Type locality:
England.

Link:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19625#page/356/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
008B89FA7BC3B8C8

Avibase ID:
avibase-008B89FA

Short link:
https://avibase.ca/008B89FA

Taxonomic Serial Number:
TSN: 920816

Geographic range:

Motacilla flava flavissima: Britain and adjacent coastal Europe; winters to Africa
Motacilla flava lutea: lower Volga River basin to Kazakhstan; winters to Africa and Indian subcontinent

Source: Clements checklist

English:
Western Yellow Wagtail [Yellowish-crowned or Yellow-headed]
French:
Bergeronnette printanière [flavissima ou lutea]
Japanese (romaji):
nishitsumenagasekirei (flavissima/lutea)
Japanese:
ニシツメナガセキレイ (flavissima/lutea)
Dutch:
Engelse Kwikstaart/Kaspische Kwikstaart

Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:

Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): Western Yellow Wagtail [Yellowish-crowned or Yellow-headed] ( Motacilla flava [flavissima or lutea])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023): Western Yellow Wagtail [Yellowish-crowned or Yellow-headed] ( Motacilla flava [flavissima or lutea])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024): Western Yellow Wagtail [Yellowish-crowned or Yellow-headed] ( Motacilla flava [flavissima or lutea])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016): Yellowish-crowned or Yellow-headed Wagtail ( Motacilla [flavissima or lutea])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017): Yellowish-crowned or Yellow-headed Wagtail ( Motacilla [flavissima or lutea])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018): Western Yellow Wagtail [Yellowish-crowned or Yellow-headed] ( Motacilla flava [flavissima or lutea])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): Western Yellow Wagtail [Yellowish-crowned or Yellow-headed] ( Motacilla flava [flavissima or lutea])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): Western Yellow Wagtail [Yellowish-crowned or Yellow-headed] ( Motacilla flava [flavissima or lutea])
eBird version 2015: Western Yellow Wagtail (flavissima/lutea) ( Motacilla flava flavissima/lutea) [version 1]
eBird version 2016: Western Yellow Wagtail (lutea/flavissima) ( Motacilla flava lutea/flavissima)
eBird version 2017: Western Yellow Wagtail (lutea/flavissima) ( Motacilla flava lutea/flavissima)
eBird version 2018: Western Yellow Wagtail (lutea/flavissima) ( Motacilla flava lutea/flavissima)
eBird version 2019: Western Yellow Wagtail (lutea/flavissima) ( Motacilla flava lutea/flavissima)
eBird version 2021: Western Yellow Wagtail (lutea/flavissima) ( Motacilla flava lutea/flavissima)
eBird version 2022: Western Yellow Wagtail (lutea/flavissima) ( Motacilla flava lutea/flavissima)
eBird version 2023: Western Yellow Wagtail (flavissima/lutea) ( Motacilla flava flavissima/lutea)
eBird version 2024: Western Yellow Wagtail (flavissima/lutea) ( Motacilla flava flavissima/lutea)

Taxonomic status:

Species status: subspecies group (sometimes a species)

This taxon is a subspecies of Motacilla flava

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Other synonyms

See also the taxonomic synonyms table.

Afrikaans: Geelkroon/Geelkopgeelkwikkie
Arabic: أبو فصادة أصفر غربي (lutea/flavissima)
Asturian: Llavandera llendadora (lutea/flavissima)
Azerbaijani: Sarı çaydaçapan (lutea/flavissima yarımnövü)
Bulgarian: Жълта стърчиопашка (ssp. lutea/flavissima)
Catalan: Cuereta groga (lutea/flavissima), Cuereta groga anglesa
Czech: konipas luční (ssp. lutea/flavissima)
Danish: Gul Vipstjert (ssp. lutea/flavissima), Gulhovedet Vipstjert
German: Schafstelze (lutea/flavissima), Schafstelze-flavissima, Wiesenschafstelze (flavissima/lutea)
Greek: Κίτρινος Ζευκαλάτης, Κιτρινοσουσουράδα (lutea/flavissima)
Greek (Cypriot): Κίτρινος Ζευκαλάτης
English: Western Yellow Wagtail (flavissima/lutea), Western Yellow Wagtail (lutea/flavissima), Western Yellow Wagtail [Yellowish-crowned or Yellow-headed], Yellowish-crowned or Yellow-headed Wagtail
English, HBW: Western Yellow Wagtail (lutea/flavissima)
English (IOC): Western Yellow Wagtail (lutea/flavissima)
English (United States): Western Yellow Wagtail (lutea/flavissima)
Spanish: Lavandera Boyera (flavissima/lutea), Lavandera Boyera (lutea/flavissima), Lavandera Boyera Inglesa
Spanish (Spain): Lavandera Boyera (lutea/flavissima)
Spanish (HBW): Western Yellow Wagtail (flavissima/lutea)
Spanish (Mexico): Lavandera Amarilla Occidental (lutea/flavissima)
Estonian: inglise hänilane
Basque: Larre-buztanikara (lutea/flavissima)
Persian: دم‌ جنبانک شکم ‌زرد (lutea/flavissima)
Finnish: keltavästäräkki (lutea/flavissima)
French: Bergeronnette flavéole ou B. kirghize, Bergeronnette printanière (flavissima ou lutea), Bergeronnette printanière (flavissima), Bergeronnette printanière [flavéole ou kirghize], Bergeronnette printanière [flavissima ou lutea], Bergeronnette printanière [lutea ou flavissima]
Irish: glasóg bhuí
Galician: Lavandeira amarela (lutea/flavissima)
Hebrew: נחליאלי צהוב (lutea/flavissima)
Hungarian: Sárga billegető (flavissima/lutea)
Armenian: Դեղին խաղտտնիկ (լութեա/ֆլավիսիմա)
Icelandic: Gulerla (lutea/flavissima)
Italian: Cutrettola (lutea/flavissima)
Japanese (romaji): nishitsumenagasekirei (flavissima/lutea), nishitsumenagasekirei (lutea/flavissima)
Japanese: ニシツメナガセキレイ (flavissima/lutea), ニシツメナガセキレイ (lutea/flavissima), ニシツメナガセキレイ（lutea／flavissima）
Korean: 서양긴발톱할미새 (lutea/flavissima)
Scientific: Budytes flavissima, Motacilla [flavissima or lutea], Motacilla flava [flavissima or lutea], Motacilla flava flavissima, Motacilla flava flavissima/lutea, Motacilla flava lutea/flavissima, Motacilla flavissima
Luxembourgish: Englesche Panewippchen
Dutch: Engelse Gele Kwikstaart, Engelse Kwikstaart/Kaspische Kwikstaart
Norwegian: gulerle (lutea/flavissima), Gulerle, underarten flavissima
Polish: pliszka żółta (lutea/flavissima), pliszka zóltawa, pliszka żółtawa/żółtogłowa
Portuguese (Portugal): Alvéola-amarela (flavissima/lutea), alvéola-amarela (lutea/flavissima)
Russian: Жёлтая трясогузка (lutea/flavissima)
Slovak: trasochvost žltolíci, trasochvost žltý (lutea/flavissima)
Slovenian: Rumena pastirica (lutea/flavissima)
Serbian: Žuta pliska (lutea/flavissima)
Swedish: gulärla (flavissima/lutea)
Turkish: Sarı Kuyruksallayan (flavissima/lutea), Sarı kuyruksallayan (lutea/flavissima)
Chinese: 西黄鹡鸰 (lutea/flavissima)
Chinese (Traditional): 西方黃鶺鴒(lutea/flavissima)