Yellow wagtail Motacilla flava

Identification Tips:

• Length: 5.5 inches
• Slender bill
• Yellow underparts
• Olive back
• Dark wings with some white edges
• White supercilium
• Gray head
• Black tail with white outer tail feathers
• Dark legs
• Sexes similar
• Juveniles have duller plumage, paler underparts and dark malar streaks connecting across the upper breast
• Breeds in Alaska

Similar species:

Rarer Gray Wagtail has yellow rump and white wing stripe.

Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.