What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Citrine Wagtail been recorded?

Motacilla citreola occurrence evidence comes from 13,225 records in 30 countries and territories, from 1898 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Citrine Wagtail
Citrine Wagtail — Photo (display-sized rendition): Ron Knight from Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesPasseriformesMotacillidaeMotacilla

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

13,225 records across 30 countries and territories, 1898–2026.

Motacilla citreola · GBIF taxon key 2490307

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-23. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: May.

5 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

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When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18982026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Citrine Wagtail has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Citrine Wagtail. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Sweden 12,227
Russia 282
China 200
Ukraine 160
Belgium 146
Afghanistan 68
Mongolia 36
India 27
Austria 11
Bangladesh 11
South Korea 11
Estonia 6
Spain 6
Iran 5
Laos 4
Oman 4
Thailand 4
Canada 3
Iraq 2
Myanmar 2
Armenia 1
Germany 1
Western Sahara 1
Finland 1
Hong Kong 1
Italy 1
Jordan 1
Kazakhstan 1
Pakistan 1
Türkiye 1

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.