White-crowned Wheatear (Oenanthe leucopyga)

Other Names (World)
White-crowned Wheatear, White-tailed Wheatear, Black Wheatear, White-crowned Black Wheatear, White-rumped Wheatear

Family
Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers And Chats)

Size
17 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Brehm, 1855)

Habitat
Hot desert. Also, subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland. From sea-level - 3,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Algeria, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Israel (B), Jordan (B) (NB), Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Palestinian Authority Territories (B), Saudi Arabia (B), Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara (B), Yemen (B).

Vagrant to Bahrain, Cyprus, Greece, Iran [Islamic Republic of], Kuwait, Malta, Nigeria, Oman, Qatar, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (41)...)

White-crowned Wheatear (Oenanthe leucopyga) [XC771440]
by Lars Lachmann from Lac Yasmina (grounds of Hotel Yasmina), Morocco (song)

White-crowned Wheatear (Oenanthe leucopyga) [XC181890]
by Thijs Fijen from Rissani, Morocco (song)

Subspecies
Some specimens of nominate subspecies along Red Sea coast indistinguishable from ernesti so variation may be clinal. Proposed subspecies aegra (western and central Sahara) synonymized with nominate.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

leucopyga (Brehm, 1855) - Western and central Sahara east to Egypt and Sudan, Eritrea and Djibouti.
ernesti Meinertzhagen, R, 1930 - Southern Israel, southern Jordan and north-eastern Egypt (Sinai) south to central and eastern Arabia and Yemen.
aegra Hartert, E, 1913 - Rocky deserts of Mauritania to Tunisia.

References
See References.

Files:

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