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 LC    Black Wheatear* Id (Atlas):
    Oenanthe leucura Vagrant

Description (10)
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Family
Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers And Chats)

Size
18 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Gmelin, 1789)

Range (Guide)
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.

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) [XC617129]
     by Cedric Mroczko from Ribera d'Ebre (near Riba-roja d'Ebre), Tarragona, Catalunya, Spain (call)

 
Black Wheatear (Oenanthe leucura) [XC892435]
     by id from Imiter, Ouarzazate Province, Dr\u00e2a-Tafilalet, Morocco (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
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Files:
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