Hooded Wheatear
Oenanthe monacha(Temminck, CJ, 1825)
English (US) Hooded Wheatear
The Hooded Wheatear (Oenanthe monacha) 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: rocky desert ravines of northeastern Sudan and Egypt to southern PakistanRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Oenanthe monacha
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Hooded Wheatear
- Described by
- (Temminck, CJ, 1825)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Saxicola monacha
- Described by
- (Temminck, CJ, 1825)
- Type locality
- Nubia [= Luxor, vide Stresemann, 1954, Abh. Deutschen Akad. Wiss., Math.-Naturwiss., Berlin, 1, p. 174].
- Original description
- Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon livr.60, vol.3 pl.359 fig.1
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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