Variable Wheatear
Oenanthe picata(Blyth, E, 1847)
English (US) Variable Wheatear
The Variable Wheatear (Oenanthe picata) 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 eastern Iran eastward to western Tien Shan, Pamirs, northern and western Pakistan, and Kashmir; winters to southeastern Arabian Peninsula and southwestern AsiaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Oenanthe picata
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Variable Wheatear
- Described by
- (Blyth, E, 1847)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Saxicola picata
- Described by
- (Blyth, E, 1847)
- Type locality
- Sind to Ferozepore; hereby restricted to Sind.
- Original description
- Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 16, pt.1 p.131
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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