Mass: 1.9 g

Diet: insectivore based on Joshi et al. 2012, Zou et al. 2012, Vignoli et al. 2013, Yashmita-Ulman et al. 2016, and Mukhopadhyay and Mazumdar 2017

Abundance: 0.01 to 4.20% (median 0.59%)

Latitudinal range: 27.5° to 61.5°

Habitats: (1), Mediterranean woodland (2), boreal forest/taiga (2), desert/xeric shrubland (4), temperate broadleaf/mixed forest (4), temperate coniferous forest (1), temperate wetland (2), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (1), tropical/subtropical wetland (1)

Found in 18 samples

Austria: Hohenau-Ringelsdorf

China: Altun Mountains, Mount Kalamaili Ungulate Nature Reserve, Dawei Shan Nature Reserve, Yanchiwan National Nature Reserve

Egypt: Burullus Ringing Station (Autumn 2005), Ras Shukheir

Italy: Parco Regionale Gallipoli Cognato Piccole Dolomiti Lucane

Romania: Grindul Lupilor

Russia: Biological Station Rybachy, Bistraya River

Saudi Arabia: Ti’s al Ghadah (Middle Pleistocene)

Slovakia: Gbelce

Spain: El Viso

Sweden: Boda (1994), Boda (1997)

United Kingdom: Wanstead, Portland Bird Observatory

	21 mm	N = 1
	24.4 mm	N = 1
	23.6 mm	N = 1
	23.3 mm	N = 1
	27.9 mm	N = 1

See also Motacilla, Motacilla capensis, Motacilla cinerea, Motacilla citreola, Motacilla clara, Motacilla flava, Motacilla flaviventris, Motacilla grandis, Motacilla indica, Motacilla tschutschensis