White-tailed 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.

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) [XC607067]
by Gregory Askew from Judah, Al-Ahsa, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia (call, subsong)

White-crowned Wheatear (Oenanthe leucopyga) [XC700174]
by Pawe\u0142 Malczyk from Al Giza Desert, Giza Governorate, Egypt (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
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Files:

JPG files for White-tailed Wheatear (Oenanthe leucopyga) - 10 files

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