Passeriformes

Pipits and Wagtails (Motacillidae)

HBW 9, p. 686

• Small to medium-sized, mostly terrestrial passerines with short neck, long tail, long legs and toes; plumage mostly brown or brownish, often streaked, some species black and white, some with yellow or orange.
• Cosmopolitan, mostly Old World.
• Mostly open habitats, often grassland, a few species in wooded habitats; often near water.
• 6 genera, 65 species, 212 taxa.
• 5 species threatened; none extinct since 1600.