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    The Yellow Wagtail

    Aug 23, 2023 2 minutes

    One of the folklore names for the yellow wagtail (Motacilla flava Flavissima) is ‘sunshine bird’ – flavissima means ‘yellowest of all’.

    The male beams its presence, when it finally appears as a summer migrant, from tropical Africa – bright as a dandelion in its preferred marshland or rough

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