Western Yellow Wagtails stopping on Cyprus on their way north
Cyprus - March 2021
Eggs, Collection Museum Wiesbaden
By Klaus Rassinger und Gerhard Cammerer, Museum Wiesbaden - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37357359
In culture
In the Pyramid Texts of Old Kingdom Egypt, the yellow wagtail was considered a representation of Atum himself and might have been the first inspiration for the Bennu bird, which, in turn, is the supposed inspiration for the phoenix of Greek mythology. Listen to the Western Yellow Wagtail
Remarks from the Recordist
Recorded with my ZOOM H5 Handy Recorded. High Pass Filter applied with Audacity.
Bird sitting in the field. Many Yellow Wagtails in the area
Remarks from the Recordist
Recorded with my ZOOM H5 Handy Recorded. High Pass Filter applied with Audacity.
Bird sitting in the field. Many Yellow Wagtails in the area
Conservation status
IUCN Red List
of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
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