Wheatears and Allies
Oenanthe
The wheatears /ˈhwiːtɪər/ are passerine birds of the genus Oenanthe. They were formerly considered to be members of the thrush family, Turdidae, but are now more commonly placed in the flycatcher family, Muscicapidae. This is an Old World group, but the northern wheatear has established a foothold in eastern Canada and Greenland and in western Canada and Alaska.
33 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 31 known species
Northern Wheatear
speciesOenanthe oenanthe
Familiar Chat
speciesOenanthe familiaris
Isabelline Wheatear
speciesOenanthe isabellina
Pied Wheatear
speciesOenanthe pleschanka
Eastern Black-eared Wheatear
speciesOenanthe melanoleuca
Desert Wheatear
speciesOenanthe deserti
Black Wheatear
speciesOenanthe leucura
Western Black-eared Wheatear
speciesOenanthe hispanica
Capped Wheatear
speciesOenanthe pileata
Brown Rock Chat
speciesOenanthe fusca
White-crowned Wheatear
speciesOenanthe leucopyga
Blackstart
speciesOenanthe melanura
Mourning Wheatear
speciesOenanthe lugens
Finsch's Wheatear
speciesOenanthe finschii
Seebohm's Wheatear
speciesOenanthe seebohmi
Variable Wheatear
speciesOenanthe picata
Red-rumped Wheatear
speciesOenanthe moesta
Hume's Wheatear
speciesOenanthe albonigra
Cyprus Wheatear
speciesOenanthe cypriaca
Abyssinian Wheatear
speciesOenanthe lugubris
Red-tailed Wheatear
speciesOenanthe chrysopygia
Hooded Wheatear
speciesOenanthe monacha
White-fronted Black-Chat
speciesOenanthe albifrons
Arabian Wheatear
speciesOenanthe lugentoides
Kurdish Wheatear
speciesOenanthe xanthoprymna
Rusty-breasted Wheatear
speciesOenanthe frenata
Brown-tailed Chat
speciesOenanthe scotocerca
Sombre Rock Chat
speciesOenanthe dubia
Eastern Black-eared × Pied Wheatear
hybridOenanthe melanoleuca × pleschanka
Heuglin's Wheatear
speciesOenanthe heuglinii
Buff-breasted Wheatear
speciesOenanthe bottae
Somali Wheatear
speciesOenanthe phillipsi
Oenanthe chrysopygia × xanthoprymna
hybridOenanthe chrysopygia × xanthoprymna
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
A New Distribution of Umbelliferous Plants
Robert Morison · 1672 · p.135
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.596
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.594
On Medical Materials in Six Books
Dioscorides · 1550 · p.470
De medicinali materia libri sex
Dioscorides · 1552 · p.478
History of Animals, Book I: On Viviparous Quadrupeds
Conrad Gessner · 1554 · p.790
Historiae Animalium Liber III: De Avium Natura
Conrad Gesner · 1555 · p.645
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.1041
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.1040
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.1039
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.1038
Stirpium adversaria nova
Matthias de Lobel · 1571 · p.350
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 980200.