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Motacillidae

Index Motacillidae

The wagtails, longclaws and pipits are a family, Motacillidae, of small passerine birds with medium to long tails. [1]

85 relations: Abyssinian longclaw, African pied wagtail, African pipit, African rock pipit, Afrotropical realm, Alaska, Alpine pipit, Arthropod, Australasian pipit, Berthelot's pipit, Bird, Bird migration, Blyth's pipit, Buff-bellied pipit, Buffy pipit, Bushveld pipit, Cape longclaw, Cape wagtail, Citrine wagtail, Correndera pipit, Cosmopolitan distribution, Eastern yellow wagtail, Eurasian rock pipit, Falkland Islands, Family (biology), Fülleborn's longclaw, Forest wagtail, Genus, Golden pipit, Grey wagtail, Grimwood's longclaw, Hellmayr's pipit, Hemimacronyx, Japanese wagtail, Lark, Long-billed pipit, Long-legged pipit, Longclaw, Madagascan wagtail, Madanga, Malindi pipit, Meadow pipit, Mekong wagtail, Mountain pipit, Mountain wagtail, New Zealand, Nilgiri pipit, Ochre-breasted pipit, Olive-backed pipit, Paddyfield pipit, ..., Pampas pipit, Pangani longclaw, Paramo pipit, Paraphyly, Passerine, Pechora pipit, Pipit, Plain-backed pipit, Plumage, Red-throated pipit, Richard's pipit, Rosy pipit, Rosy-throated longclaw, São Tomé shorttail, Sexual dimorphism, Sharpe's longclaw, Short-billed pipit, Short-tailed pipit, Sokoke pipit, South Georgia pipit, Sprague's pipit, Striped pipit, Tawny pipit, Thomas Horsfield, Tree pipit, Upland pipit, Wagtail, Water pipit, Western yellow wagtail, White wagtail, White-browed wagtail, Wood pipit, Yellow-breasted pipit, Yellow-throated longclaw, Yellowish pipit. Expand index (35 more) »

Abyssinian longclaw

The Abyssinian longclaw (Macronyx flavicollis) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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African pied wagtail

The African pied wagtail, or African wagtail, (Motacilla aguimp) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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African pipit

The African pipit (Anthus cinnamomeus) is a fairly small passerine bird belonging to the pipit genus Anthus in the family Motacillidae.

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African rock pipit

The African rock pipit (Anthus crenatus), also known as the yellow-tufted pipit, is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Afrotropical realm

The Afrotropical realm is one of the Earth's eight biogeographic realms.

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Alaska

Alaska (Alax̂sxax̂) is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America.

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Alpine pipit

The alpine pipit (Anthus gutturalis) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Arthropod

An arthropod (from Greek ἄρθρον arthron, "joint" and πούς pous, "foot") is an invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton (external skeleton), a segmented body, and paired jointed appendages.

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Australasian pipit

The Australasian pipit (Anthus novaeseelandiae) is a fairly small passerine bird of open country in Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea.

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Berthelot's pipit

The Berthelot's pipit (Anthus berthelotii) is a small passerine bird which breeds in Madeira and the Canary Islands.

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Bird

Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Bird migration

Bird migration is the regular seasonal movement, often north and south along a flyway, between breeding and wintering grounds.

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Blyth's pipit

The Blyth's pipit (Anthus godlewskii) is a medium-sized passerine bird which breeds in Mongolia and neighbouring areas.

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Buff-bellied pipit

The buff-bellied pipit (Anthus rubescens), or American pipit as it is known in North America, is a small songbird found on both sides of the northern Pacific.

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Buffy pipit

The buffy pipit (Anthus vaalensis) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Bushveld pipit

The Bushveld pipit, bush pipit, or little pipit, (Anthus caffer) is a species of bird in the pipit and wagtail family Motacillidae.

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Cape longclaw

The Cape longclaw or orange-throated longclaw (Macronyx capensis) is a passerine bird in the family Motacillidae, which comprises the longclaws, pipits and wagtails.

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Cape wagtail

The Cape wagtail, also known as Wells's wagtail, (Motacilla capensis) is a small African passerine bird in the family Motacillidae, which includes the wagtails, pipits and longclaws.

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Citrine wagtail

The citrine wagtail (Motacilla citreola) is a small songbird in the family Motacillidae.

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Correndera pipit

The correndera pipit (Anthus correndera) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Cosmopolitan distribution

In biogeography, a taxon is said to have a cosmopolitan distribution if its range extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats.

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Eastern yellow wagtail

The eastern yellow wagtail (Motacilla tschutschensis) is a small passerine in the wagtail family Motacillidae, which also includes the pipits and longclaws.

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Eurasian rock pipit

The Eurasian rock pipit (Anthus petrosus), or just rock pipit, is a species of small passerine bird that breeds in western Europe on rocky coasts.

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Falkland Islands

The Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf.

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Family (biology)

In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.

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Fülleborn's longclaw

The Fülleborn's longclaw (Macronyx fuelleborni), also spelled Fuelleborn's longclaw is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Forest wagtail

The forest wagtail (Dendronanthus indicus) is a medium-sized passerine bird in the wagtail family Motacillidae.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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Golden pipit

The golden pipit (Tmetothylacus tenellus) is a distinctive pipit of dry country grassland, savanna and shrubland in eastern Africa.

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Grey wagtail

The grey wagtail (Motacilla cinerea) is a member of the wagtail family, Motacillidae, measuring around 18–19 cm overall length.

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Grimwood's longclaw

The Grimwood's longclaw (Macronyx grimwoodi) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Hellmayr's pipit

The Hellmayr's pipit (Anthus hellmayri) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Hemimacronyx

Hemimacronyx is a proposed genus of birds in the pipit and wagtail family Motacillidae.

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Japanese wagtail

The Japanese wagtail (Motacilla grandis) is a species of bird in the pipit and wagtail family Motacillidae.

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Lark

Larks are passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.

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Long-billed pipit

The long-billed pipit or brown rock pipit (Anthus similis) is a passerine bird which has a wide distribution.

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Long-legged pipit

The long-legged pipit or long-clawed pipit (Anthus pallidiventris) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Longclaw

The longclaws are a genus, Macronyx, of small African passerine birds in the family Motacillidae.

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Madagascan wagtail

The Madagascan wagtail (Motacilla flaviventris) is a species of wagtail in the Motacillidae family.

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Madanga

The madanga or rufous-throated white-eye (Madanga ruficollis) is a species of bird that was formerly included in the Zosteropidae family but is now thought to be an atypical member of the family Motacillidae consisting of the pipits and wagtails.

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Malindi pipit

The Malindi pipit (Anthus melindae) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Meadow pipit

The meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis) is a small passerine bird which breeds in much of northwestern Eurasia, from southeastern Greenland and Iceland east to just east of the Ural Mountains in Russia, and south to central France and Romania; there is also an isolated population in the Caucasus Mountains.

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Mekong wagtail

The Mekong wagtail (Motacilla samveasnae) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Mountain pipit

The mountain pipit (Anthus hoeschi) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Mountain wagtail

The mountain wagtail (Motacilla clara), also known as the long-tailed wagtail or grey-backed wagtail, is a species of wagtail of the family Motacillidae from sub-Saharan Africa.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Nilgiri pipit

The Nilgiri pipit (Anthus nilghiriensis) is a distinctive species of pipit that is endemic to the high altitude hills of southern India.

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Ochre-breasted pipit

The ochre-breasted pipit (Anthus nattereri) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Olive-backed pipit

The olive-backed pipit (Anthus hodgsoni) is a small passerine bird of the pipit (Anthus) genus, which breeds across South, north Central and East Asia, as well as in the northeast of European Russia.

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Paddyfield pipit

The paddyfield pipit or Oriental pipit (Anthus rufulus) is a small passerine bird in the pipit and wagtail family.

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Pampas pipit

The Pampas pipit (Anthus chacoensis), also known as the Chaco pipit or Campo pipit, is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Pangani longclaw

The Pangani longclaw (Macronyx aurantiigula) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae, which includes the pipits and wagtails.

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Paramo pipit

The paramo pipit (Anthus bogotensis) is a species of bird in the Motacillidae family.

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Paraphyly

In taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's last common ancestor and all descendants of that ancestor excluding a few—typically only one or two—monophyletic subgroups.

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Passerine

A passerine is any bird of the order Passeriformes, which includes more than half of all bird species.

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Pechora pipit

The Pechora pipit (Anthus gustavi) is a small passerine bird which breeds in the tundra of northern Asia, eastwards of Russia.

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Pipit

The pipits are a cosmopolitan genus, Anthus, of small passerine birds with medium to long tails.

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Plain-backed pipit

The plain-backed pipit or plain pipit (Anthus leucophrys) is a medium-sized passerine bird which is a resident breeder in Africa south of the Sahara Desert.

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Plumage

Plumage ("feather") refers both to the layer of feathers that cover a bird and the pattern, colour, and arrangement of those feathers.

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Red-throated pipit

The red-throated pipit (Anthus cervinus) is a small passerine bird which breeds in the far north of Europe and Asia, with a foothold in northern Alaska.

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Richard's pipit

Richard's pipit (Anthus richardi) is a medium-sized passerine bird which breeds in open grasslands in northern Asia.

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Rosy pipit

The rosy pipit (Anthus roseatus) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Rosy-throated longclaw

The rosy-throated longclaw, also known as the rosy-breasted longclaw (Macronyx ameliae) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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São Tomé shorttail

The São Tomé shorttail (Amaurocichla bocagei), also known as Bocage's longbill, is a species of passerine bird in the family Motacillidae which contains the pipits and wagtails.

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Sexual dimorphism

Sexual dimorphism is the condition where the two sexes of the same species exhibit different characteristics beyond the differences in their sexual organs.

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Sharpe's longclaw

The Sharpe's longclaw (Hemimacronyx sharpei) is a passerine bird in the longclaw family Motacillidae, which also includes the pipits and wagtails.

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Short-billed pipit

The short-billed pipit (Anthus furcatus) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Short-tailed pipit

The short-tailed pipit (Anthus brachyurus) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Sokoke pipit

The Sokoke pipit (Anthus sokokensis) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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South Georgia pipit

The South Georgia pipit (Anthus antarcticus) is a sparrow-sized bird only found on the South Georgia archipelago off the Antarctic Peninsula.

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Sprague's pipit

Sprague's pipit (Anthus spragueii) is a small songbird (passerine) in the family Motacillidae that breeds in the short- and mixed-grass prairies of North America.

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Striped pipit

The striped pipit (Anthus lineiventris) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Tawny pipit

The tawny pipit (Anthus campestris) is a medium-large passerine bird which breeds in much of temperate Europe and Asia, and northwest Africa.

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Thomas Horsfield

Thomas Horsfield M.D. (May 12, 1773 – July 24, 1859) was an American physician and naturalist who worked extensively in Indonesia, describing numerous species of plants and animals from the region.

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Tree pipit

The tree pipit (Anthus trivialis) is a small passerine bird which breeds across most of Europe and temperate western and central Asia.

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Upland pipit

The upland pipit (Anthus sylvanus) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Wagtail

The wagtails are a genus, Motacilla, of passerine birds in the family Motacillidae.

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Water pipit

The water pipit (Anthus spinoletta) is a small passerine bird which breeds in the mountains of Southern Europe and Southern Asia eastwards to China.

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Western yellow wagtail

The western yellow wagtail (Motacilla flava) is a small passerine in the wagtail family Motacillidae, which also includes the pipits and longclaws.

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White wagtail

The white wagtail (Motacilla alba) is a small passerine bird in the family Motacillidae, which also includes pipits and longclaws.

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White-browed wagtail

The white-browed wagtail or large pied wagtail (Motacilla maderaspatensis) is a medium-sized bird and is the largest member of the wagtail family.

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Wood pipit

The wood pipit or woodland pipit (Anthus nyassae) is a small passerine bird belonging to the pipit genus Anthus in the family Motacillidae.

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Yellow-breasted pipit

The yellow-breasted pipit (Anthus chloris) is a species of bird in the pipit and wagtail family Motacillidae.

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Yellow-throated longclaw

The yellow-throated longclaw (Macronyx croceus) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Yellowish pipit

The yellowish pipit (Anthus lutescens) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motacillidae

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