🦉 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
I met a family of these birds on the river bank on the outskirts of the city.
Yes, despite the fact that these birds have become synanthropic, that is, urban, they can still be found in the wild.
An adult male walked along the trampled path (in the top photo). He walked, chirped and shook his tail. And a young bird (in the second photo) was near the river, wandering over the stones.
These birds arrive quite early, at the very beginning of spring, when the snow has already melted. And they fly away somewhere at the end of September, that is, quite late for insectivorous birds.
