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Eastern yellow wagtail
Motacilla tschutschensis · Family Motacillidae
Motacilla tschutschensis
Family Motacillidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Motacillidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 208,910
- Countries and territories with records
- 72
About this species
This species has 208,910 occurrence records from 72 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Taiwan (54%), India (7.6%), the United States (6.2%), Thailand (6.1%) and China (5.5%); together they account for 79.5% of the total. In Taiwan, this species accounts for 0.53% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Motacilla tschutschensis combines the genus name Motacilla with the species epithet tschutschensis. The Warbla app catalog lists 13 species of the genus Motacilla; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Motacilla alba, Motacilla flava and Motacilla cinerea.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 68 species of the family Motacillidae. This species ranks 14th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Motacilla alba. Its record count is 64.7% of the family average (323,139). The family Motacillidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.