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Motacillidae
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Describes how to distinguish this bird from the skylark and provides facts about its diet and breeding habits.
http://nzbirds.com/NZPipit.html
Natural history plus information about the threats to this bird and restoration potential.
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Unlucky 13 Sprague's Pipit Louisiana and south to central Mexico. Threats: Loss of breeding habitat due to cultivation, wetland drainage and overgrazing. Restoration Potential: Present populations can be maintained if grasslands with breeding birds are not cultivated or overgrazed. Deferred rotational grazing may help...Preferred habitat, behavior, diet, and physical appearance of this bird.
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Grey Wagtail, Motacilla cinerea Retreats from upland areas to some extent in winter. Breeds along fast running rivers and streams, mostly in hilly country. In winter also round still water in lowlands. Very long tail (longer than Yellow and Pied Wagtails Grey back, yellow...Photo, identification tips, and taxonomy chart.
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Yellow Wagtail In order to display this page a browser is needed that displays frames....Photos and brief facts about three subspecies of this bird.
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Pied Wagtail (Motacilla alba) There are several quite distinct subspecies of Pied Wagtail. The subspecies commonly found in Britain is Motacilla alba yarrellii in which the male has a glossy black back and the female has a dark grey back. The third photo shows...Describes how to distinguish this bird from the skylark and provides facts about its diet and breeding habits.
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New Zealand pipit, Anthus novaeseelandiae Living at the farm in the Waiotahe Valley, I never saw pipits and skylarks and so always had great difficulty in distinguishing the two. The falcons in the Valley probably wiped them out. But here, overlooking Ohiwa Harbour, pipits, or...