blue-headed wagtail

noun

The nominate subspecies of the western yellow wagtail, Motacilla flava flava.

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nounblue-headed wagtail (plural blue-headed wagtails)

plural blue-headed wagtails

  1. The nominate subspecies of the western yellow wagtail, Motacilla flava flava.

    Blue-headed Wagtails and migrant Warblers were nice but hardly ‘cripplers’.

    1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 113
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