Citrine Wagtail

How to identify

Field marks

1. Breeding male has entire head bright yellow and nape black
2. Breeding male has gray or black back and white on the flight feathers
3. Long tail wagged continuously
4. Head brown in winter plumage, with a yellow supercilium

Male, female and young

Female resembles a faded version of the male in winter.

Where and when it's recorded

Citrine Wagtail has been recorded at 1,123 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 83 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Bharatpur – Keoladeo Ghana NPIndia1,833 records
2. Private estate near Green MubazzarahUnited Arab Emirates1,665 records
3. International Birding and Research Center Eilat (IBRCE)Israel1,580 records

Countries and regions with the most records

IndiaUnited Arab EmiratesIsraelChinaMongoliaBangladeshThailandRussia

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

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