wagtail in English

noun

1

a slender Eurasian and African songbird with a long tail that is frequently wagged up and down, typically living by water.

Both pipits and wagtails bathe in shallow standing water.

Use "wagtail" in a sentence

1. Within the wagtail genus Motacilla, the white wagtail's closest genetic relatives appear to be other black-and-white wagtails such as the Japanese wagtail, Motacilla grandis, and the white-browed wagtail, Motacilla madaraspatensis (and possibly the Mekong wagtail, Motacilla samveasnae, the phylogenetic position of which is mysterious), with which it appears to form a superspecies.

2. Mallard duck, grey wagtail and occasionally kingfishers frequent the waterside.

3. Pine shadows poetry goose, white wagtail, Shiyan wine before.

4. A white wagtail crashed into one of my windows.

5. It is the only wagtail species that nests in trees.

6. It was a yellow wagtail, seen from below, where its colours are finest.

7. A parent of Japanese Wagtail gave food to the young one that just left the nest near the river.

8. This is because this bird forms a cryptic species complex with the eastern (M. tschutschensis ) and western yellow wagtail (M. flava).

9. After admiring the wagtail for a while, I went on until at last I reached the Round Tower.

10. One expecting wagtail found the perfect place for her and her chicks - inside the bonnet of an ice cream van in Massachusetts, US.

11. But Gavroche, who was of the wagtail species, and who skipped vivaciously from one gesture to another, had just picked up a stone.

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