Archive for the ‘Old-world-flycatchers+’ Category

• Eastern black-eared wheatear

  Nov 15 | Old-world-flycatchers+, wheatear | Little Stint | 1211 Views | with Comments Off on Eastern black-eared wheatear

  Eastern black-eared wheatear – Oenanthe melanoleuca – is a small migratory Eurasian wheatear of Type sallyer, Family Muscicapidae and Order Passeriformes. NOTE this species and another, the Western black-eared...

• Blackstart

  Nov 14 | blackstart, Old-world-flycatchers+ | Little Stint | 1359 Views | with Comments Off on Blackstart

  Blackstart – Oenanthe melanura – is a resident Afro-Arabian wheatear of Type – sallyer, Family Muscicapidae and Order Passeriformes. It is resident in rocky areas of the S Sahara into W and SW Arabia. In the AWB...

• Variable wheatear

  Nov 13 | Old-world-flycatchers+, wheatear | Little Stint | 1232 Views | with Comments Off on Variable wheatear

  Variable wheatear – Oenanthe picata – is a migratory Asian wheatear of Type – sallyer, Family Muscicapidae and Order Passeriformes. It is a summer breeder to SW Asia and migrates only a short distance to winter...

• Hume’s wheatear

  Nov 13 | Old-world-flycatchers+, wheatear | Little Stint | 1206 Views | with Comments Off on Hume’s wheatear

  Hume’s wheatear – Oenanthe albonigra – is a large resident Asian wheatear of Type – sallyer, Family Muscicapidae and Order Passeriformes. It is found across SW Asia and E Arabia. In the AWB Region it is...

• White-crowned wheatear

  Nov 13 | Old-world-flycatchers+, wheatear | Little Stint | 1180 Views | with Comments Off on White-crowned wheatear

  White-crowned wheatear – Oenanthe leucopyga – is a large resident African-Arabian wheatear of Type-sallyer, Family Muscicapidae and Order Passeriformes. It is one of very few species of birds that calls the Sahara...

• Mourning wheatear

  Nov 12 | Old-world-flycatchers+, wheatear | Little Stint | 1288 Views | with Comments Off on Mourning wheatear

  Mourning wheatear – Oenanthe lugens – is a larger partially migratory Afro-Asian wheatear of Type – sallyer, Family Muscicapidae and Order Passeriformes. It ranges across N Africa, the Middle East and Iran. In...

• Kurdish wheatear

  Nov 12 | Old-world-flycatchers+, wheatear | Little Stint | 1225 Views | with Comments Off on Kurdish wheatear

  Kurdish wheatear – Oenanthe xanthoprymna – is a migratory Asian wheatear of Type – sallyer, Family Muscicapidae and Order Passeriformes. It is found as a summer breeder to SW Asia, and migrates a short distance...

• Persian wheatear

  Nov 12 | Old-world-flycatchers+, wheatear | Little Stint | 1192 Views | with Comments Off on Persian wheatear

  Persian wheatear – Oenanthe chrysopygia – or Red-tailed wheatear is a small migratory Asian passerine of Type – sallyer, Family Muscicapidae and Order Passeriformes. It has a very limited range and is a summer...

• Muscicapidae – Old world flycatchers+

  Nov 9 | Muscicapidae, Old-world-flycatchers+ | Little Stint | 1515 Views | with Comments Off on Muscicapidae – Old world flycatchers+

  Muscicapidae – old-world-flycatchers+ is a large Family of small arboreal insectivorous passerines of Type – sallyer, and Order Passeriformes. The term sallyer is defined below. The Family contains a large list of...