White-crowned Wheatear (Oenanthe leucopyga) [XC341760]
by Geoffrey Monchaux from Abu Simbel, Egypt (song)
White-crowned Wheatear (Oenanthe leucopyga) [XC711986]
by Frank Lambert from Hassilabied, Errachidia Province, Dr\u00e2a-Tafilalet, 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.