Motacilla flava Linnaeus, 1758

Boano, Giovanni, Belemsobgo, Urbain, Silvano, Fabrizio, Hema, Emmanuel M., Belemsobgo, Aristide, Dimobe, Kangbéni & Pavia, Marco, 2022, An annotated checklist of the birds of Burkina Faso, Zoosystema 44 (2), pp. 27-107 : 101

Motacilla flava Linnaeus, 1758

LITERATURE. — Green & Sayer (1979); Thonnérieux (1985); Holyoak & Seddon (1989); Thonnérieux et al. (1989); Thonnérieux et al. (1990); Dowsett (1993); Weesie (1996); Balanca & de Visscher (1997); Borrow & Demey (2001, 2014); Portier (2002b, c); Balanca et al. (2007); Sinclair & Ryan (2010); Pavia et al. (2012); Dowsett et al. (2013); Ferlini (2020).

FIELD DATA. — GBIF; WABD; XC.

STATUS. — Palaearctic migrant with different subspecies (see Remark).

REMARK. — A recent analysis of African wintering range of the Motacilla flava subspecies ( Ferlini 2020) confirm the presence in Burkina Faso of M. f. flava Linnaeus, 1758, M. f. flavissima (Blyth, 1834) and M. f. cinereocapilla Savi, 1831. According to Borrow & Demey (2014), M. f. thunbergi Billberg, 1828 and M. f. iberiae Hartert, 1921 are also probably present. M. f. feldegg Michahelles, 1830, is known for a single record in Ouagadougu ( Thonnerieux 1990), which requires confirmation.