Rusty-breasted Wheatear
Oenanthe frenata(Heuglin, MT, 1869)
English (US) Rusty-breasted Wheatear
The Rusty-breasted Wheatear (Oenanthe frenata) 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 Eritrea and EthiopiaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Oenanthe frenata
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Rusty-breasted Wheatear
- Described by
- (Heuglin, MT, 1869)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Saxicola frenata
- Described by
- (Heuglin, MT, 1869)
- Type locality
- Mensa, Abyssinian highlands.
- Original description
- Journal für Ornithologie 17, no.99 p.158-159
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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