African Pied Wagtail

Motacilla aguimp Temminck, 1820

African Pied Wagtail, Motacilla aguimp, is a passerine in the family Motacillidae and breeds widely across Africa. It was described by Temminck in 1820. This wagtail is black and white, with dark upperparts set against pale underparts, a white eyebrow and a white panel in the folded wing. Juveniles are greyer, and birds of the nominate form have grey flanks. It occurs across sub-Saharan Africa, from the Eastern Cape north to southern Egypt and from Guinea east to Eritrea and Somalia, and it also appears as a vagrant in several other places.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Motacillidae — Wagtails, Pipits

Breeding range

Africa: widespread