Desert Wheatear (Oenanthe deserti) [XC447026]
by Lukas Thiess from Al Madinah Province, Saudi Arabia (call)
Desert Wheatear (Oenanthe deserti) [XC44498]
by vir joshi from Ras al Jinz, Oman (song, subsong, resembling full song)
Subspecies
Several subspecies in center of range have been described (salina and atrogularis) but distinctions very slight, and better treated as synonyms of nominate.
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:
homochroa (Tristram, 1859) - Northern Africa (including once Mauritania) east to north-western Egypt. Non-breeding Sahara and northern Sahel (Mauritania east to Chad).
deserti (Temminck, 1825) - North-eastern Egypt and Levant east, discontinuously, to Azerbaijan (probably Armenia), southern Kazakhstan, Afghanistan and Mongolia. Non-breeding north-eastern Africa (including Socotra I) and south-western Asia.
oreophila (Oberholser, 1900) - Kashmir east to Nepal, Pamir, Tibetan Plateau and western China (southern Xinjiang). Non-breeding Arabia, south-western Asia and north-western and central India.
atrogularis (Blyth, 1847) - Transcaucasia and Iran to Afghanistan and Mongolia.