Least ConcernNorthern Wheatear
Oenanthe oenanthe
47 countries186 parks
Species group · Birds
WAnimals has 4 species of wheatear, in the family Muscicapidae.
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 4.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
No species documented in this group is genuinely at risk according to the IUCN, with the data available today.
Recorded in 75 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
The Alaskan population crosses the whole of Asia to reach Africa: as much as 15,000 km each way.
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Its Spanish name comes from the white of its tail: "colla" plus "alba".
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The populations that breed in Alaska and Greenland cross half the planet to winter in sub-Saharan Africa, like the rest of the species.
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It nests underground in the abandoned burrows of gerbils and ground squirrels, sometimes more than a metre deep, and depends on those rodents in order to breed on the bare steppe.
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Its name refers to the colour isabelline, a pale beige which, according to an apocryphal legend, comes from a vow by Isabella of Castile not to change her shift until Granada was taken.
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It is among the hardest wheatears to identify precisely because of its lack of features: uniformly sandy, without contrast, and telling it from other species demands attention to proportions and posture.
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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.
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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.
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