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 LC    Blackstart* Id (Atlas):
    Oenanthe melanura

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Blackstart, Black-tailed Chat, Black-tailed Rockchat, Black-tailed Cercomela

Family
Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers And Chats)

Size
14 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Temminck, 1824)

Habitat
Hot desert. From sea-level - 2,000 m.

Range (Guide)
Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Israel (B), Jordan (B) (NB), Mali, Niger, Oman (B), Palestinian Authority Territories (B), Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Yemen (B).

Vagrant to Gambia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (34)...)

 
Blackstart (Oenanthe melanura) [XC781459]
     by Rapha\u00ebl Bussi\u00e8re from , Oman (song)

 
Blackstart (Oenanthe melanura) [XC406795]
     by Guy Kirwan from Oman, Mudayy, Djibouti (song)

Subspecies
Species often given as erlangeri, but that name invalid, as preoccupied. Subspecies ultima individually highly variable, possibly not distinct from airensis.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

  • ultima (Bates, 1933)   -  Eastern Mali and western Niger.
  • airensis (Hartert, 1921)   -  Northern Niger (Aí¯r) east to central Sudan.
  • melanura (Temminck, 1824)   -  Israel, Jordan and extreme north-eastern Egypt (Sinai) south to north-western and interior central and southern Arabia.
  • neumanni (Ripley, 1952)   -  South-western Saudi Arabia, western and southern Yemen and south-western Oman.
  • lypura (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1833)   -  North-central and north-eastern Sudan, and south-eastern Egypt south to Eritrea.
  • aussae (Thesiger & Meynell, 1934)   -  North-eastern Ethiopia, Djibouti and northern Somalia.



References
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Files:
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