Cyprus Wheatear

• It breeds only on Cyprus, an island of less than 10,000 square kilometres, and the entire world population winters in a narrow strip of north-east Africa: two tiny areas connected by a journey of thousands of kilometres.
• It was split from the pied wheatear as a species of its own in the 1990s, on the basis of differences in song, plumage and genetics.
• It is one of the species affected by the illegal trapping of birds with nets and limesticks in Cyprus, a traditional practice that has become industrialised and that kills millions of migratory birds every year.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bird)

Habitat and environment

Stony slopes, open scrub, vineyards and field edges of Cyprus; winters in Ethiopia and Sudan

Sexual maturity

12 months

Gestation / incubation

13 days of incubation

Litter / clutch size

5 eggs

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oenanthe_cypriaca

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.