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Grey Wagtail
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Habitat and behaviour
Habitat: Fast streams, riversides.
Diet: Aquatic insects.
Best time to spot: Always near water.
When to look
Resident in the UK, so it can be found year-round. More on the season in Bird migration in Britain.
How rare is it?
The Grey Wagtail sits in our Common tier for the UK: one of the birds you can expect on most days out in the right habitat. It is Amber-listed in Birds of Conservation Concern 5, the middle level of concern in the UK.
Recent UK sightings
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Similar birds
- Pied WagtailCommon · Open ground
- Black-headed WagtailEpic · Marshes (very rare race)
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- Eastern Yellow WagtailEpic · Marshes (very rare vagrant)
- Grey-headed WagtailRare · Marshes (rare passage)
- Iberian Pied WagtailEpic · Open ground (very rare)
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