Buff-breasted Wheatear
Oenanthe bottae(Bonaparte, CLJL, 1854)
English (US) Buff-breasted Wheatear
The Buff-breasted Wheatear (Oenanthe bottae) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Muscicapidae (Chats, Old World Flycatchers, and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: highlands of southwestern Arabia (Mecca to Yemen)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Oenanthe bottae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Buff-breasted Wheatear
- Described by
- (Bonaparte, CLJL, 1854)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Campicola bottae
- Described by
- (Bonaparte, CLJL, 1854)
- Type locality
- no locality ; Yemen designated by Sclater, 1930, Syst. Av. Aethiop., p. 455.
- Original description
- Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences 38 p.7
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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