๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Japanese Wagtail live?

Motacilla grandis has 40,934 records in 8 countries and territories, from 1903 to 2026. Most records come from Japan.

Japanese Wagtail
Japanese Wagtail โ€” nubobo from Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan / CC BY 2.0 ยท source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesMotacillidaeMotacilla

When it is recorded

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Peak month: December. 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.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Japan 36,032
South Korea 4,780
Taiwan 67
China 40
Russia 5
North Korea 4
Mongolia 4
Madagascar 2

Related animals

Others in the family Motacillidae.

White Wagtail
White Wagtail
6,900,983 records
Meadow Pipit
Meadow Pipit
3,376,071 records
Gray Wagtail
Gray Wagtail
2,095,539 records
Western Yellow Wagtail
Western Yellow Wagtail
2,090,124 records
Tree Pipit
Tree Pipit
1,610,315 records
Rock Pipit
Rock Pipit
568,661 records
Cape Wagtail
Cape Wagtail
501,350 records
Water Pipit
Water Pipit
423,442 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months โ€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map โ€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.