White Wagtail (Motacilla alba)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander V. Badyaev ◽  
Daniel D. Gibson ◽  
Brina Kessel ◽  
Peter Pyle ◽  
Michael A. Patten
Keyword(s):  
Motacilla Alba

White Wagtail (Motacilla alba)

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander V. Badyaev ◽  
Daniel D. Gibson ◽  
Brina Kessel
Keyword(s):  
Motacilla Alba

scholarly journals Breeding biology of two wagtail subspecies on Ulleung Island, Korea: Amur Wagtails, Motacilla alba leucopsis and Black-backed Wagtails, M. a. lugens

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 259-266
Author(s):  
Ji-Young Lee ◽  
Jin-Young Park ◽  
Incheol Kim ◽  
Woo-Yuel Kim ◽  
Ha-Cheol Sung
Keyword(s):  
Breeding Biology ◽  
Ulleung Island ◽  
Motacilla Alba

scholarly journals The evolutionary history of the white wagtail species complex, (Passeriformes: Motacillidae: Motacilla alba)

2019 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-276
Author(s):  
Maliheh Pirayesh Shirazinejad ◽  
Mansour Aliabadian ◽  
Omid Mirshamsi
Keyword(s):  
Species Complex ◽  
Phylogenetic Trees ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Considerable Effect ◽  
Niche Modelling ◽  
Complex Species ◽  
Ancestral Area ◽  
Genetic Lineages ◽  
Western Asia ◽  
Motacilla Alba

The white wagtail (Motacilla alba) species complex with its distinctive plumage in separate geographical areas can serve as a model to test evolutionary hypotheses. Its extensive variety in plumage, despite the genetic similarity between taxa, and the evolutionary events connected to this variety are poorly understood. Therefore we sampled in the breeding range of the white wagtail: 338 individuals were analyzed from 74 areas in the Palearctic and Mediterranean. We studied the white wagtail complex based on two mitochondrial DNA markers to make inferences about the evolutionary history. Our phylogenetic trees highlight mtDNA sequences (ND2, CR), and one nuclear marker (CHD1Z), which partly correspond to earlier described clades: the northern Palearctic (clade N); eastern and central Asia (clade SE); south-western Asia west to the British Isles (clade SW); and Morocco (clade M). The divergence of all clades occurred during the Pleistocene. We also used ecological niche modelling for three genetic lineages (excluding clade M); results showed congruence between niche and phylogenetic divergence in these clades. The results of the white wagtail ancestral area reconstruction showed the influence of dispersal on the distribution and divergence of this complex species. The most important vicariance event for the white wagtail complex may have been caused by the Gobi and Taklamakan deserts. We conclude that the ancestral area of the white wagtail complex was probably in the Mediterranean, with its geography having a considerable effect on speciation processes.

scholarly journals Birds as the Feeders of Ticks (Acari, Ixodida) in Megalopolis of Kyiv

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 467-470
Author(s):  
I. V. Nebogatkin
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Parus Major ◽  
Ground Level ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Haemaphysalis Concinna ◽  
Corvus Frugilegus ◽  
Motacilla Alba ◽  
Taxonomic Groups

Abstract Birds as the Feeders of Ticks (Acari, Ixodida) in Megalopolis of Kyiv. Nebogatkin, I. V. - Data about ticks parasitizing on birds in the city of Kyiv were summarized. 117 birds and 27 nests were examined. Ticks were found on six species collecting food on the ground level: Great Tit (Parus major), White Wagtail (Motacilla alba), Rook (Corvus frugilegus), blackbird (Turdus merula), and Nuthatch (Sitta europaea). 56 Ixodidae specimens of four species from two genera were collected from the birds and their nests: Ixodes ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758); I. arboricola Schulze et Schlottke, 1930; I. lividus (Koch, 1844), Haemaphysalis concinna Koch, 1844. Th e role of birds as feeders of all developmental stages of ticks not only increases under conditions of urban landscape, but also becomes leading in the places with low population of small mammals. Ectoparasites of birds of the other taxonomic groups along with the ticks can play an important role in maintaining the circulation of pathogens of various aetiologies in the urban landscapes.

On Some Species of the Genus Oxyspirura (Nematoda, Thelaziidae) from Birds in Czechoslovakia

1965 ◽  
Vol 39 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 117-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Barus
Keyword(s):  
Lanius Collurio ◽  
Motacilla Alba

The paper describes findings of three species of nematodes of the genus Oxyspirura parasites of birds in Czechoslovakia: O. (S.) petrowi (Skrjabin, 1929) from Lanius collurio L., O. (S.) rysavyi Baruŝ, 1963 from Oriolus oriolus oriolus and O. (O.) chabaudi n.sp. from Motacilla alba alba L.

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