{"id":25407,"date":"2012-11-05T14:30:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T13:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/small-landbirds\/yellow-wagtail-motacilla-flava\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:14:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:14:44","slug":"yellow-wagtail-motacilla-flava","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/small-landbirds\/yellow-wagtail-motacilla-flava\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Yellow Wagtail, Motacilla flava, is a small passerine in the wagtail family Motacillidae. This species breeds in much of temperate Europe and Asia and has a foothold in North America in Alaska. It is resident in the milder parts of its range, such as western Europe, but northern and eastern populations migrate to Africa and south Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Factsheet: Yellow Wagtail\u00a0<i>Motacilla\u00a0flava<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview\" id=\"ngg-gallery-279-25407\">\n\n\n\n    \t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-2074\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/yellow-wagtail-motacilla-flava\/yellow-wagtail-motacilla-flava-8.jpg\" title=\"Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava) at Rheindamm, Vorarlberg, Austria\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava) at Rheindamm, Vorarlberg, Austria\" alt=\"Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/yellow-wagtail-motacilla-flava\/thumbs\/thumbs_yellow-wagtail-motacilla-flava-8.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-2073\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/yellow-wagtail-motacilla-flava\/yellow-wagtail-motacilla-flava-7.jpg\" title=\"Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava) at Rheindamm, Vorarlberg, Austria\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava) at Rheindamm, Vorarlberg, Austria\" alt=\"Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/yellow-wagtail-motacilla-flava\/thumbs\/thumbs_yellow-wagtail-motacilla-flava-7.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-2072\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/yellow-wagtail-motacilla-flava\/yellow-wagtail-motacilla-flava-6.jpg\" title=\"Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava) at Rheindamm, Vorarlberg, Austria\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava) at Rheindamm, Vorarlberg, Austria\" alt=\"Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/yellow-wagtail-motacilla-flava\/thumbs\/thumbs_yellow-wagtail-motacilla-flava-6.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-2071\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/yellow-wagtail-motacilla-flava\/yellow-wagtail-motacilla-flava-5.jpg\" title=\"Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava) at s&#039;Albufeira Marsh, Mallorca, Spain\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava) at s&#039;Albufeira Marsh, Mallorca, Spain\" alt=\"Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/yellow-wagtail-motacilla-flava\/thumbs\/thumbs_yellow-wagtail-motacilla-flava-5.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-2070\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/yellow-wagtail-motacilla-flava\/yellow-wagtail-motacilla-flava-4.jpg\" title=\"Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava) at s&#039;Albufeira Marsh, Mallorca, Spain\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava) at s&#039;Albufeira Marsh, Mallorca, Spain\" alt=\"Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/yellow-wagtail-motacilla-flava\/thumbs\/thumbs_yellow-wagtail-motacilla-flava-4.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-2069\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/yellow-wagtail-motacilla-flava\/yellow-wagtail-motacilla-flava-3.jpg\" title=\"Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava) at s&#039;Albufeira Marsh, Mallorca, Spain\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava) at s&#039;Albufeira Marsh, Mallorca, Spain\" alt=\"Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava) \" 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This species breeds in much of temperate Europe and Asia and has a foothold in North America in Alaska. It is resident in the milder parts of its range, such as western Europe, but northern and eastern populations migrate to Africa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1178,"featured_media":831416,"parent":17619,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[2251,707],"class_list":["post-25407","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-motacilla-flava","tag-yellow-wagtail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25407\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}