Wildlife : Birdwatching - 1482 🐦

🦉 The grey wagtail (Motacilla cinerea)

📚 Motacilla lat .: mōto, mōtare move continuously, -cilla tail (cilla like a tail - only in ornithology, erroneous established name)
📚 cinerea lat.: cineris ash, cinereus, cineraceus ash gray

A very strange species of wagtail. First, we call them "mountain". I have no idea why, because we have no mountains in the region. And secondly, for some reason, these birds gravitate so strongly to landfills. It is in the landfill that I meet this bird for the third year in a row. This place is in the forest, there is a thermal power plant nearby, and near it there is a dump of concrete blocks, some kind of bricks and other abandoned building material.

The bird sat on the concrete material and screamed, these were calls. And you know who will arrive at her call?

🦉 The white wagtail (Motacilla alba)

📚 Motacilla lat .: mōto, mōtare move continuously, -cilla tail (cilla like a tail - only in ornithology, erroneous established name)
📚 alba (lat.) white

Yes, their voices are very similar, and probably this white wagtail confused her voice with his own and flew to look. By the way, white wagtails are very rare in this place, because they are synanthropes and live mainly in cities.