Heuglin's Wheatear
Oenanthe heuglinii(Heuglin, MT, 1869)
English (US) Heuglin's Wheatear
The Heuglin's Wheatear (Oenanthe heuglinii) 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: Mauritania to Mali, Cameroon, Sudan, Ethiopia, and northwestern KenyaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Oenanthe heuglinii
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Heuglin's Wheatear
- Described by
- (Heuglin, MT, 1869)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Saxicola Heuglini
- Described by
- (Heuglin, MT, 1869)
- Type locality
- 'Gondar' [errore ; Sudan suggested by Sclater, 1930, Syst. Av. Aethiop., p. 455].
- Original description
- Ornithologie Nordost-Afrika's, der Nilquellen- und Küsten-Gebiete des Rothen Meeres und des nördlichen Somal-Landes p.259
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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