Wildlife : Birdwatching - 1515 🐦

🦉 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

This is a rather rare species of wagtail. I came across them only three times, and two of them in this forest, once a year. The fact is that this bird mainly lives along mountain rivers, lakes and streams, for which, by the way, we call her "mountain wagtail".

But that day I met her in my favorite forest, on the remains of some old construction debris. She sat on top of a broken concrete beam and called out. Which of course is pointless, since she is alone in such an area.

But the bird continued to call others flying to the bushes. This is the only way to attract this white wagtail