A bird of a black-and-white race of the white wagtail, found in the British Isles, Spain, and Morocco.
白鹡鸰
Motacilla alba yarrelli, family Motacillidae
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Then a pair of pied wagtails take over and spend hours trawling the grass for insect life, especially those hapless creatures that fall from the oak tree in search of a safe place down in the grass roots in which to over-winter.
To the majority of nurserymen, pied wagtails are hardly welcome because they foul tomatoes, and chrysanthemums and carnation blooms.
A survey of the birds who visited the cemetery in 1999 recorded blue tits, bull finches, pied wagtails and wood pigeons.
Wild creatures, such as the pied wagtail, use the longer grass for nesting.
Elsewhere in the country an exceptionally large reedbed roost in Hampshire once held over 180 grey wagtails in company with 100 pied wagtails.