Eastern Black-eared Wheatear
Oenanthe melanoleuca(Güldenstädt, JA, 1775)
English (US) Eastern Black-eared Wheatear
The Eastern Black-eared Wheatear (Oenanthe melanoleuca) 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: breeds southeastern Europe (eastward from southern Italy and Croatia), Türkiye, and the Levant eastward to southwestern Kazakhstan and western Iran; winters in the central and eastern Sahel, eastward to the southern Red SeaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Oenanthe melanoleuca
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Not Evaluated
- English (US)
- Eastern Black-eared Wheatear
- Described by
- (Güldenstädt, JA, 1775)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Muscicapa melanoleuca
- Described by
- (Güldenstädt, JA, 1775)
- Type locality
- Tiflis, Georgia, Caucasus.
- Original description
- Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae 14 p.468
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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