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white wagtail
bird
Also known as: Motacilla alba, pied wagtail
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coevolutionary alternation
- In community ecology: Coevolution of one species with several species
pratensis), reed warblers (Acrocephalus scirpaceus), pied wagtails (Motacilla alba yarrellii), and dunnocks (Prunella modularis).
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description
- In wagtail
Males of the white wagtail (Motacilla alba), common across Eurasia, are variably white and gray or white and black. The variety in Britain is called pied wagtail. The only species reaching the New World is the yellow wagtail (M. flava, sometimes Budytes flavus), which breeds in Alaska and…
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