Pipits and Wagtails (Motacillidae)

African Pied Wagtail (Motacilla aguimp) - HBW 9, p. 779

French: Bergeronnette pie German: Witwenstelze Spanish: Lavandera Africana
Other common names: African Wagtail

Taxonomy: Motacilla aguimp Dumont, 1821, Lower Orange River, South Africa.
Thought to form a superspecies with M. alba, M. maderaspatensis, M. grandis and M. samveasnae; recent analyses of mitochondrial DNA, however, suggest that it is possibly more distantly related to this group, and may be a sister-taxon to a group containing M. alba (with race lugens), M. flava, M. citreola and M. cinerea. Two subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

vidua Sundevall, 1850 - Sierra Leone and S Mali E to S Sudan and NW & E Kenya, S to Angola, N & E Botswana and E South Africa (S to Eastern Cape); also lower Nile Valley (S from S Egypt), and discontinuously N & E Sudan, W Eritrea, NW, NE & S Ethiopia, and S Somalia.
aguimp Dumont, 1821 - R Orange and R Vaal drainages in S Namibia, C South Africa and Lesotho.

Least Concern

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Catch in beak! Locality Victoria Falls, Matabeleland North Province, Zimbabwe
Robert Erasmus 30 November 2011 24 weeks ago 4.2
Adult feeding Locality Virunga National Park, Nord-Kivu Province, Zaire (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (ssp vidua)
Mlanguy 8 October 2011 1 year ago 4.2
Adult bird standing on the river's edge. Locality Kruger National Park, South Africa
Martin Främke 26 March 2011 22 weeks ago 4
A bird on the ground. Locality Kruger National Park, South Africa
Ken Havard 9 October 2007 2 years ago 4
Bird perched on bridge railing Locality Kruger National Park, South Africa
Chris and Megan Perkins 23 March 2009 4 years ago 3.8
Close to water Locality Mkuze Game Reserve, iSimangaliso Wetland Park, KwaZulu Natal Province, South Africa
Guy Poisson 4 November 2012 22 weeks ago 3.7
Wading in a river near Phabeni Gate. Locality Kruger National Park, South Africa
Robert Erasmus 16 May 2011 1 year ago 3.7
Bird rumaging in the garden. Locality Kalangala, Bugala Island, Uganda (ssp vidua)
ddarbela 21 December 2010 2 years ago 3.5
adult specimen Locality Amboseli National Park, Kenya
Marco Valentini 31 January 2012 1 year ago 3.5
Foraging in a garden Locality Sabie, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa
Lindsay Hansch 10 October 2008 2 years ago 3.4
Foraging around the office Locality Juba, Central Equatoria State, South Sudan
Smoghead 28 December 2012 20 weeks ago 3.3
Outside the office Locality Juba, Central Equatoria State, South Sudan
Smoghead 28 December 2012 7 weeks ago 3.3
African Pied Wagtails Sitting on Rope of Ilala Ferry on Lake Malawi Locality Malawi
Duncan Wallace 18 July 2004 3 years ago 3
A bird on the ground. Locality Jemmu Valley, Ethiopia
Josep del Hoyo 26 November 2005 3 years ago 2