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(Message started by: Koren on May 10^th, 2004, 5:49pm)

Title: Wagtails here all year?
Post by Koren on May 10^th, 2004, 5:49pm

Are wagtails here all year round, or do they go north to breed? I ask because I saw a grey wagtail here at the HK Institute of Education today and I haven't seen them here before, so I wondered if it was on its way north.

Cheers, Koren

Title: Re: Wagtails here all year?
Post by Webcreeper on May 14^th, 2004, 6:56am

The Avifauna of Hong Kong describes Grey Wagtail as a "common winter visitor and passage migrant, possibly with occasional breeding". There have been some summer records and one in 1994 suggests breeding.

Some White Wagtails (leucopsis) stay and breed in Hong Kong in summer.