Motacilla flaviventris

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• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.5     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     5     Wetlands (inland)   
  
•     5.1     Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls )   
  
•     5.5     Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha)   
  
•     5.16     Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Saline, Brackish or Alkaline Marshes/Pools   
  
•     12     Marine Intertidal   
  
•     12.1     Marine Intertidal - Rocky Shoreline   
  
•     12.2     Marine Intertidal - Sandy Shoreline and/or Beaches, Sand Bars , Spits , Etc   
  
•     12.3     Marine Intertidal - Shingle and/or Pebble Shoreline and/or Beaches   
  
•     12.6     Marine Intertidal - Tidepools   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
  
•     14.2     Artificial/Terrestrial - Pastureland   
  
•     14.3     Artificial/Terrestrial - Plantations   
  
•     14.4     Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens   
  
•     15     Artificial/Aquatic & Marine   
  
•     15.3     Artificial/Aquatic - Aquaculture Ponds   
  
•     15.8     Artificial/Aquatic - Seasonally Flooded Agricultural Land   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

Members of the genus Motacilla

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 40 species and subspecies in this genus:

M. aguimp (African Pied Wagtail) · M. aguimp aguimp (African Pied Wagtail) · M. aguimp vidua (African Pied Wagtail) · M. alba (Pied Wagtail and White Wagtail) · M. alba alba (White Wagtail) · M. alba dukhuensis (Indian White Wagtail) · M. alba lugens (White Wagtail) · M. alba ocularis (White Wagtail) · M. alba persica (Persian White Wagtail) · M. alboides (Himalayan Wagtail) · M. baicalensis (Baikal Wagtail) · M. capensa (Cape Wagtail) · M. capensis (Cape Wagtail) · M. capensis capensis (Cape Wagtail) · M. cinerea (Grey Wagtail) · M. cinerea cinerea (Gray Wagtail) · M. cinerea robustus (Gray Wagtail) · M. citreola (Yellow-Hooded Wagtail) · M. citreola citreola (Yellow-Hooded Wagtail) · M. citreola pallas (Yellow-Hooded Wagtail) · M. clara (Long-Tailed Wagtail) · M. flava (Western Yellow Wagtail) · M. flava flava (Yellow Wagtail) · M. flava flavissima (Yellow Wagtail) · M. flava iberiae (Yellow Wagtail) · M. flava melanogrisea (Yellow Wagtail) · M. flava simillima (Yellow Wagtail) · M. flava tschutschensis (Yellow Wagtail) · M. flaviventris (Madagascar Wagtail) · M. grandis (Japanese Pied Wagtail) · M. leucopsis (Amur Wagtail) · M. lugens (Black Backed Wagtail) · M. madaraspatensis (Whitebrowed Wagtail) · M. maderaspatensis (Large Pied Wagtail) · M. ocularis (East Siberian Wagtail) · M. personata (Central Asian White Wagtail) · M. samveasnae (Mekong Wagtail) · M. subpersonata (Moroccan Wagtail) · M. tschutschensis (Eastern Yellow Wagtail) · M. yarrellii (British Isles White Wagtail)

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Further Reading

• A Floral and faunal inventory of the eastern slopes of the Réserve naturelle intégrale d'Andringitra, Madagascar: with reference to elevational variation / Steven M. Goodman, editor. 85 1996 [Chicago, Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, c1996. url p. 315.
• A List of birds' eggs in the collection of Mr. William Stoate, Wembdon, Bridgewater. [188-?] url p. 68.
• A catalogue of the collection of birds formed by the late Hugh Edwin Strickland. Cambridge, Univ. Press, 1882. url p. 80.
• A floral and faunal inventory of the Parc national de Marojejy, Madagascar: with reference to elevational variation / Steven M. Goodman, editor. 97 2000 [Chicago, Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, c2000. url p. 284.
• A hand-book to the birds of Great Britain / by R. Bowdler Sharpe. London: E. Lloyd, 1896-1897. url p. 92.
• Bulletin / Peabody Museum of Natural History. 1971 New Haven: Peabody Museum of Natural History, url p. 188, p. 188.
• Catalogue of African birds in the collection of R.B. Sharpe. London: Published by the Author, 1871. url p. 73.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 496.
• Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum / By E. W. Oates [and afterwards] by S. G. Reid [and] W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. London, 1901-12. url p. 81.
• Catalogue of the collection of birds' eggs in the British Museum (Natural History) London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1901-12. url p. 81.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 142.
• Hand-book to the birds of Great Britain. London, Allen, 1894-97. url p. 92.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 685.
• Madagascar: an environmental profile IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre url p. 113, p. 116, p. 125, p. 127, p. 132, p. 140, p. 143, p. 149, p. 151, p. 154, p. 156, p. 159, p. 161, p. 163, p. 165, p. 173.
• Oil spill sensitivity of the western Indian Ocean islands: coastal data from the Comoros Islands, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion and the Seychelles WCMC url p. 12.
• Postilla. 1968 New Haven, Conn.: Peabody Museum of Natural History, [1950?]-c2004. url p. 34.
• Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh. Edinburgh: The Society, 1858-1955 url p. 148.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 243, p. 688.
• The birds of Africa, comprising all the species which occur in the Ethiopian region, by G.E. Shelley. .. London, Published for the author by R.H. Porter (18 Princes Street, Cavendish Square, W.), 1896-1912. url p. 281.
• The birds of southeastern Madagascar / Steven M. Goodman. .. [et al.]. 87 1997 [Chicago, Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, c1997. url p. 130, p. 63.
• Three voyages of a naturalist, being an account of many little-known islands in three oceans visited by the "Valhalla, " R. Y. S.; London, Witherby & co., 1908. url p. 96.
• Three voyages of a naturalist: being an account of many little-known islands in three oceans visited by the "Valhalla" R.Y.S. / by M. J. Nicoll; with an introduction by the Earl of Crawford. London: Witherby & Co., 1908. url p. 96.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2009. Motacilla flaviventris. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 02February2012.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 10, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 6983
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-561229
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13498094
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 561229
• IUCN ID: 224527
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 138279

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