| Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)] |
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Black Wheatear* |
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Oenanthe leucura |
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Description (10)
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Black Wheatear
© larsfoto.se
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Family
Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers And Chats)
Size
18 cm
First Described (Guide)
(Gmelin, 1789)
Algeria, France (B) (NB), Gibraltar (E) (B), Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Morocco, Portugal (B) (NB), Spain (B) (NB), Tunisia, Western Sahara (B).
Vagrant to Bulgaria, Greece, Israel, Italy, Liechtenstein, Malta, Mauritania, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia.
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.
Population
Estimated population is 25,000 - 192,000 (2010).
Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (79)...)
Black Wheatear (Oenanthe leucura) [XC637125]
by Jordi Calvet from Bellaguarda, Les Garrigues, Catalunya, Spain (song)
Black Wheatear (Oenanthe leucura) [XC417718]
by Lukas Thiess from Sierra de C\u00e1diz (near Grazalema), C\u00e1diz, Andaluc\u00eda, Spain (song)
Subspecies
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
- leucura (Gmelin, 1789) - Eastern Portugal, Spain and extreme southern France.
- syenitica (Heuglin, 1869) - North-western Africa east to north-western Libya (Jebel Nafusa).
- riggenbachi (Hartert, 1909) - Extreme north-western Mauritania to Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Libya.
References
See References.
Files:
BirdLife International
For more information about the Black Wheatear see...  BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
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